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's technical support is the best."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"It's a stable product."
"The flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"I think all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"Hyper-V is much easier to deploy because Hyper-V is already installed inside Windows Server OS. You only need to turn on Hyper-V as a service, and then you can use it. The most convenient thing about Hyper-V is the operating system."
"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 solution is stable."
"We use it to virtualize our server infrastructure. Virtualization has made it easier for us to manage our environment. We can manage it from location, the vSphere web client."
"Server Virtualization is the most important feature because that helps me to utilize 100% capacity of my physical server or box. Its redundancy, uptime, or high-availability is also valuable. Storage-sharing is also valuable. In vSAN, I can utilize the maximum storage. In the physical boxes, if you don't require storage, it lies idle, but with VMware or any kind of virtualization, you can utilize the full storage."
"The tool makes virtualization easy. It was free, and we could profit from its GUI. It helps to manage VMs easily."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to revert to previous snapshots during testing of various guest and application deployments."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"VMware vSphere is the best private-cloud solution."
"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."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"The only negative thing I heard was that the baseline price is very, very attractive relative to VMware, however, the vCenter counterpart, the thing that brings it all together, is quite pricey."
"Both the price and the licensing fee are expensive, especially for our clients with a smaller workload."
"As we continue to push mission-critical workloads into vSphere, and those workloads are not readily protected at the application layer for availability, continuing to increase the size limitations on FT-protected VMs would be a great advance."
"The technical support is poor. We are in Australia, but we do not have the same level of support as the US and Europe."
"It lacks a snapshot feature."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"The UI of VMware could use some improvements, especially in dark mode."
"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."
"This solution should have a better backup policy. Furthermore, there should be an ability to expose the universal machine. In the current version, you need to shutdown and use an offline virtual machine to backup."
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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