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 is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"Hyper-V improved the infrastructure drastically, not only from a performance perspective but from a control/administration view as well."
"The solution has good scalability."
"I think the cluster environment is a good feature of Hyper-V because, if something happens, then it will automatically move to some other mode. This is a great feature of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"Reduces downtime."
"being able to manage a lot of servers in one pane of glass makes things a lot simpler. Basically, a lot of things just happen in one area. You can roll things over, move things around more dynamically, without having to hit multiple systems."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"The performance is efficient."
"The stability of VMware vSphere is very good. It has high resiliency, it is one of the best solutions on the market."
"VMware vSphere is a stable platform. We never had any issues with VMware vSphere. Once you deploy it with a stable version of the server or the hardware, there's no issue at all."
"Production people can quickly reboot the server with ESXi Quick Boot."
"VMware's high availability which supports our SLA, VMware on the fly features like LUN expansion, P2V and API integrations are the most valuable features."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"The setup is easy. However, the configuration expansion can be difficult. The full implementation took three to four days. This included the move from physical servers to virtual ones."
"Security and patch-related items need improvement."
"I would like to see AI in future releases."
"The latest version of the solution has a few bugs."
"Due to the fact that during the last three months there appeared some critical bugs, the virtual machine backup might be inconsistent."
"We've been using vSphere on Windows 7, and it had less fluff associated with ThinApp. Currently, with Windows 10 version that we have, it adds a lot of bulk to ThinApp. We have offices spanning across Canada from the east coast to the west coast. A ThinApp that is roughly around 400 MB in size would take minutes to open up. With Windows 7, the same ThinApp used to be close to 75 to 80 MB in size. So, I'm really not happy with the extra fluff that is bundled in Windows 10. It really messes things up for us at times."
"The solution could be more stable."
"Here in Egypt, we would like everything free. So if you give us the license for free, we would be thrilled."
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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