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.
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"The installation was straightforward."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"Visibility: We can easily pull reports and give access to other people to look at specs or performance metrics."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to manage."
"Server consolidation. Getting rid of our physical servers and going virtual is saving us some money in overall rack space."
"Provides good backup to our servers."
"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."
"Overall, it is a pretty good solution. We do not have to worry about upgrading the versions that people use for our in-house software. We just create ThinApps, and as soon as they log in, they always get the upgraded version. This part really works well for us."
"As an end-user, I would say it has allowed us to have the flexibility of moving around our workloads on different machines, and not having to worry if anything is down."
"Production people can quickly reboot the server with ESXi Quick Boot."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"In an upcoming release, they can improve by having better cloud integration. We are all moving towards the clouds and the integration is only through the Azure Stack, there should be tools built in to move the VMs natively to the cloud and infrastructure. Additionally, they could provide some form of multi-cloud integration."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"When it comes to Hyper-V the worst thing is it's based on the Windows operating system. For the installation of Hyper-V, you're supposed to install the right operating system. For me, it's strange."
"It lacks a snapshot feature."
"The management of the product demonstration is weak."
"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."
"I would like them to move into having a containerized application to manage the vCenter."
"The price could be better. The licensing is definitely expensive and tech support is sometimes frustrating."
"Technical support is not that great. It is too slow."
"Technical support could be faster in terms of response times."
"Customer support takes a long time to respond."
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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