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.
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"It's a very manageable product."
"The setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"The scalability has been good."
"The solution saves cost."
"Basic hypervisor functions with HA."
"I think that the solution is perfect. It's the best on the market."
"The connectivity is fantastic, and many functions can run together in one server. If you need to scale, we can continue to add components or modules. It's a beautiful virtual solution that has many advantages over physical hardware, where you have to use devices and wiring to connect all your projects."
"It is easy to use."
"It helps to automate the data replication and DR (disaster recovery)."
"The most valuable features for us are HA, DRS, and SDRS."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"Hyper-V's management platform falls short in terms of scalability, especially when handling multiple Hyper-V servers. VMware has a central console to pull in all your VM servers, so you can easily manage them all through one console. You can manage servers in Hyper-V's admin centers, but it's not as scalable. It's doable with a couple of Hyper-V servers, but it becomes harder to manage when you get over two or three Hyper-V servers."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"An area for improvement is that when comparing VMware to Nutanix, Nutanix has higher availability, like clustering for virtual machines. That is a good idea and VMware could profit from something like that for higher availability installations."
"I would like more Amazon stuff inside of VMware."
"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."
"They should make it more efficient and stable."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
"I would like having something that works on a smaller screen, so we can get to it on our iPads and have it more touch-centric versus having to sit at a laptop."
"The solution's technical team is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
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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