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 definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."
"The most valuable features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"I like the functionality."
"I like that Hyper-V comes for free with Windows Server. You don't need to buy the license, and you only have to pay for the management aspect in System Center."
"The performance is very good."
"It is a stable product."
"Also, the automated builds are being done through it, and we don't have to manually do it anymore. All of my AIS platforms are completely automated now with the VM suite."
"It is fairly easy to use and has enhanced security."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"The solution is user-friendly. It is easy to convert, create, and manage systems."
"The solution is easy to use, has high performance, and good virtualization."
"It is absolutely simple and efficient to manage. We can bring in people who have never been exposed to vSphere or virtualized environments and they're still able to support it from a server standpoint. The training time as well as the adoption rate, for a junior technician or somebody coming right out of college, is very good."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSphere is the ability to work in a big system infrastructure."
"It is highly scalable. We can add new hardware and expand the infrastructure easily."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"The pricing and technical support can be improved."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"In general, based on my little experience with Hyper-V, I see a lot of obstacles. I think it falls behind the other competitors."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"The technical support is good. However, it could be more seamless when it comes to chat support and lower response times."
"I can't speak to any missing features. It has everything I need."
"The license fee could be more affordable."
"VMware vSphere needs to increase the datastore volume."
"If they improve on the knowledge base and documentation, it would be extremely helpful."
"In the last couple of years, the breaking apart of specific added benefits and charging license upcharges for them. That would be the only negative thing that I have to say: As a large consumer of the Hypervisor, we have a hard time justifying the cost of utilizing the extra products, especially when it's a couple of grand here and there, a couple of hundred dollars here and there. It's hard for an IT administrator or an architect to sell to upper management. When they're seeing so much ROI from the Hypervisor, it's hard to show them that there is extra value in the additional products that can be tied on top."
"When it comes to cross-regional (e.g., someone in the US managing the China vSphere implementations), it can be a somewhat slow. I would recommend increasing the speed. While there has already been improvement there, I would like to see more."
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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