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's a very manageable product."
"Hyper-V improved the infrastructure drastically, not only from a performance perspective but from a control/administration view as well."
"I like the functionality."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"The features in VMware vSphere data recovery are excellent. Sometimes I've deleted an entire server before and was able to recover the deleted VM. I just used some command line tools and I was able to restore the deleted VM."
"This solution's most valuable feature is its High Availability."
"We use the solution's vMotion feature to migrate VMs from one host to another across different environments and data centers."
"VMware vSphere has a lot of features that are valuable, such as multiple clusters, VM mobility, VDI, and virtual desktop."
"The fact that you can use all the CPU and memory power that the server can provide is most valuable. In a physical server, you might end up not using all the physical resources. There are a lot of benefits, such as flexibility and mobility, in virtualizing computes."
"I definitely like the stability, performance and ease-of-use."
"The most valuable feature is being able to VMotion and migrate easily, moving machines around on the host. I know DRS will take care of a lot about that, but there's still some manual intervention here and there, so the flexibility of it has been really good."
"The most valuable feature is the VDP Backup solution."
"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."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"The solution could be cheaper and less expensive."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"Integration with different platforms could be improved."
"The integration with containers should be addressed."
"I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could be improved."
"I would like to see AI in future releases."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"On Vista, there should be a lot more new features. We would like to see more security features to harden our environment in the future."
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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