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.
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"The implementation process is simple."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"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 most valuable features are the seamless HA with vMotion and being able to run vCenters in HA mode."
"The visibility that we have of our VMs is also important. What's being applied? Who has management of them? Laying it out in a virtual environment allows us customization for our students. We're able to respond to the students' needs much more quickly than we could in a physical environment."
"vMotion is one of the most useful features, which helps to provide both flexibility and High Availability. With new versions of vSphere and vCenter, it is still improving (e.g., vMotion across vCenter Servers and virtual switches)."
"vSphere does offer quite a bit of security stuff built-in. It is nice to know that we can have the virtual machines encrypted, so that if somebody were to get a hold of any of those files, we don't have to worry about them actually being used."
"The solution is user-friendly. It is easy to convert, create, and manage systems."
"It is highly scalable. We can add new hardware and expand the infrastructure easily."
"It is the number one virtualization-layer platform available, and a lot of people trust it."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"The solution is heavily reliant on Microsoft's active directory for authentication, for coordination between nodes. Therefore, it inherits all the issues that are within the active directory."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"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."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"It would be nice if it was turned into its own product because that's the problem with it. It doesn't have a single place where you can manage things. You have to go into all different screens to be able to configure it. And then you have no idea what the performance is. It's really just a feature added to Windows, and Microsoft does not really have anything that pulls it all together well. Compared to VMware, it does not have everything collaborate on one screen."
"I'd like to get rid of the Flash Client. There are still some things we need to go in there and use it for, some plugins and other things aren't supported in the HTML5."
"The integration with containers should be addressed."
"There are certain tools the can't run in parallel and occasionally, in those instances, we have trouble migrating customers from one source to our data center."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
"They can maybe review its price. They can also consider offering a free public version for development for a certain number of users."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
"The solution’s pricing is too high and could be improved."
"Its price could be better. It is expensive, and its price is a big concern."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". 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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