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 all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The performance is very good."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"It's very transparent and independent."
"Vmware vSphere is the benchmark of the visualization market."
"It is easy to deploy and find troubleshooting articles as well."
"The solution is very scalable."
"The most valuable features are stability and support."
"Scalability is the big advantage of it. The product itself allows us to scale on the fly as we need it, and plan for the future."
"Visibility: We can easily pull reports and give access to other people to look at specs or performance metrics."
"The solution allows for very good virtualization."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"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."
"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."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"We are provided with a mini dashboard that has been improved in the latest version but it still could be better. The monitoring is now available on the vCenter dashboard and the vROps has been added to the basic version that had to be purchased separately before. A complete dashboard has always been provided with some competitors, such as Nutanix."
"The licensing costs are expensive and most of the important features require a license."
"VMware vSphere is perfect for the on-premise solution, but we are in the cloud era, so I think maybe VMware needs to invest more in the cloud and the microservice chain. It would be better if VMware offered more cloud solutions and continuous applications."
"They can lower the price of its license."
"The vSphere Client always feels slow, and/or like it doesn't keep up with what I'm trying to do. So I usually use the thick client most of the time."
"The price is a big issue for us because the market is very competitive in our country, so we can't really push our VMware vSphere products because the customers will prefer to use something cheaper."
"In terms of what could be improved, we do face some bugs when cloning the virtual machine - it fails sometimes."
"The solution is slower than other tools."
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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