We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and VMware VSphere based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: VMware VSphere is the winner in this comparison. It is easy to deploy, reliable, robust, and has excellent customer support. Hyper-V does come out on top in the pricing category, however.
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"Hyper-V improved the infrastructure drastically, not only from a performance perspective but from a control/administration view as well."
"It is a stable product."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"The stability of the solution is excellent."
"Cross vendor integration is in my opinion one of the best features."
"Its dynamic resource scheduling and its fault tolerance capabilities are two features that I've found to be valuable. I also like that VMware vSphere is stable, scalable, and easy to install."
"I have found the Storage vMotion feature to be the most valuable."
"The most valuable features are the seamless HA with vMotion and being able to run vCenters in HA mode."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSphere are backup and recovery."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"The enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V."
"The pricing and technical support can be improved."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"There's room for improvement in Hyper-V. One area I've personally encountered issues with is live migration. Sometimes during live migrations, the process gets stuck in a certain state. This can happen with replication as well. It's not necessarily a major problem, but at times, the error messages aren't very informative. They don't clearly explain why the migration failed."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
"The installation is complex and you need to have a good understanding in regards to what you are doing when you are setting it up."
"Get the HTML5 client to 100% parity to replace the Flash client."
"Security and patch-related items need improvement."
"They can maybe review its price. They can also consider offering a free public version for development for a certain number of users."
"The setup is easy. However, the configuration expansion can be difficult. The full implementation took three to four days. This included the move from physical servers to virtual ones."
"The reporting could be improved."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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