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.
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"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 solution is very user-friendly."
"The solution has good scalability."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"You don't need too many people to manage the solution once it's up and running."
"The solution saves cost."
"Having a virtualized infrastructure and being able to bring up Windows, Linux, and VMware within a virtualized environment brings more technology into the classroom. Without it, we couldn't do what we do."
"The installation process is very straightforward."
"This solution's most valuable feature is its High Availability."
"The fact that vSphere is an on-premise solution is beneficial for the user. It's easier to manage the infrastructure. It's more straightforward to scale and configure virtual machines."
"The vMotion in particular I think is the most valuable because this feature provides migrations of virtual machines in case you want to run do maintenance."
"The ability to to virtualize systems and run those virtual workloads with a fewer number of servers is tremendous."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"The Hyper-V management console could be improved to make it easier. It should be a little bit more granular. Various virtual switches could also be improved to make virtual desk management slightly better. The replication could be improved slightly. The checkpoints or snapshots could be improved to make it a bit more transparent to the user."
"When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"There's room for improvement in Hyper-V. One area I've personally encountered issues with is live migration. Sometimes during live migrations, the process gets stuck in a certain state. This can happen with replication as well. It's not necessarily a major problem, but at times, the error messages aren't very informative. They don't clearly explain why the migration failed."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"There should be a bit more flexibility in terms of the hardware we can use with the product."
"The challenge that we have is keeping the system up to date, as well as having the internal resources to maintain that platform. We're not an IT company, so it's challenging for us to keep the IT resources in-house."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"I would like to see more support regarding containers, and they need more features for them."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
"The solution is stable. It has some small bugs which are not influencing the main functions but every software has some bugs."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"Its price should be better. Their support should also be more customer-friendly, and they should train people like us so that we know more about the latest technologies and features. If there is some program and drive from their side to teach us, it is definitely going to help us. Pricing and support are the most important features for mid-level companies. We are not implementing this solution for big tech companies."
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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