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.
"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."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"The implementation process is simple."
"It is stable."
"The performance is very good."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"The restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"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."
"There is the simplicity of management, accessibility, and availability."
"We are able to increase the density of the virtualized servers and, with the increased density we have a lot of page sharing as well as memory sharing."
"The most valuable features are the vMotion, the storage vMotion, the DRS, and the high availability function."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization and the performance on the virtualization platform."
"We find the solution simple and efficient to manage."
"The VMware community is always there and it is a valuable resource."
"The virtualization this solution offer is very complete for the infrastructure."
"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."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"One of the network problems I face is I cannot introduce other security layers on top of Hyper-V as you can in VMware. When it comes to the network the VMware is more flexible than Hyper-V."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"I would like to see the configuration simplified."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
"Reporting on vCenter needs to be improved."
"Its cost needs to be improved. It is very expensive as compared to other solutions."
"I can't speak to any missing features. It has everything I need."
"They can lower the price of its license."
"It is expensive."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 30 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 14 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "Enables the creation of secure, isolated virtual environments for running applications and allows seamless transfer of virtual machines between nodes without impacting users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers a suite of software components for virtualization including ESXi, vCenter Server, and other software". 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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