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 initial setup is very easy."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"The implementation process is simple."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"An easy way of providing near-zero downtime services, the operation of the instances between clustered services, and providing the projected SLA for our customers."
"We've found the High Availability and flexibility to be important."
"The VMware community is always there and it is a valuable resource."
"Stable and secure management console for virtual environments, with a diligent technical support team."
"VMware vSphere has plenty of 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."
"We are able to create virtual machines and move them from one host to another, controlling the resources."
"VMware vSphere is a very stable product."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"When it comes to Hyper-V the worst thing is it's based on the Windows operating system. For the installation of Hyper-V, you're supposed to install the right operating system. For me, it's strange."
"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."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"The solution should be compatible with different systems."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"It could use a smaller learning curve."
"Integration with different platforms could be improved."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
"The licensing costs for the solution are quite high."
"I would like to see DRS for the GPU machines."
"The solution should offer more integration capabilities."
"I would like to see VDP and other features included to back up the VMs in a native manner."
"They should make it more efficient and stable."
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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