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 is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running."
"We could easily move workloads from on-premises to the cloud and vice versa if we were running on-premises and cloud, which is one of the most important points in the new releases, in particular."
"We have the possibility to move workloads to different locations."
"You don't need too many people to manage the solution once it's up and running."
"vSphere has enabled an enterprise class virtualization environment with a central point of monitoring and management stretched over multiple datacenters (multi-site use), adding all the features of clustering for high-availability and failover, VM migration, and operations."
"I like that it's like a distributed rescheduler. You can move to and use VMotion as well. You can move the server and move the virtual machines around different physical servers. This makes it easier when it comes to redundancy."
"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."
"There are no issues with the level of scalability you can achieve."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"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."
"I would like to see AI in future releases."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"I would like to see more software as a service solutions."
"These days we have an environment where we are often using clouds as well. A solution that would be a little more cloud-aware would be really helpful. I know there is a product from VMware that is more specifically for the cloud, but it would be nice if VMware Cloud Manager would be cloud-aware. It would simplify certain processes."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
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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