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 solution has good scalability."
"It's a very manageable product."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"The interface is quite good."
"I like the functionality."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"It helps to automate the data replication and DR (disaster recovery)."
"With VMware vSphere, it is easy to manage the scaling of our company's virtual infrastructure."
"Technical support was helpful and knowledgeable."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"The roadmap for the product itself covers all of the features that we are looking for."
"I find that the Virtual Center Management, iSCSI support, and VMotion hot migration are very beneficial."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"Its stability and manageability are valuable."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"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."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"I would love to see other options for connecting VMs to large data storage."
"One of the network problems I face is I cannot introduce other security layers on top of Hyper-V as you can in VMware. When it comes to the network the VMware is more flexible than Hyper-V."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"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."
"They need to further develop graphics virtualization."
"I would like to see a more automated upgrade, where you take the other products into account, so you can upgrade the entire VMware stack from a single interface."
"To manage it properly, you have to know this product really well."
"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 technical support is good. However, it could be more seamless when it comes to chat support and lower response times."
"I would like to see DRS for the GPU machines."
"We are provided with a mini dashboard that has been improved in the latest version but it still could be better. The monitoring is now available on the vCenter dashboard and the vROps has been added to the basic version that had to be purchased separately before. A complete dashboard has always been provided with some competitors, such as Nutanix."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". 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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