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.
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The most valuable feature is the VDP Backup solution."
"VMware vSphere is a very stable product."
"Has many good features, and is stable and reliable."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"The most valuable features for us are HA, DRS, and SDRS."
"Virtualization, VDI and application publishing are the most valuable features of VMware vSphere."
"vRealize Operations Manager is the most valuable feature, but it is not embedded in vSphere; it is a part of vSphere. It is used for forecasting and checking the consumption of CPU, memory, and other resources. It has the capability to do the forecast based on the history and give advice on consumption. VMware vSphere is easy to use and easy to implement. Its learning curve is not sharp. Any engineer with little or medium knowledge of hypervisors and virtualizations can implement vSphere with a few clicks."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"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."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"Reducing the cost of vSphere would be an improvement."
"An improvement could be allowing a "dark mode" for the interface. I think the HTML5 client is a little bit hard to read. It's all white. It's a little bit bright on the eyes. A lot of us IT guys view in the dark."
"The pipeline feature can be improved, as it doesn't allow for specific situations."
"We have had some problems setting up the monitoring with vSphere. The process could be simplified."
"In future releases, I would like to see less pricing. The license can be improved."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"On the older version of VMware vSphere, possibly version four, we had a feature that allowed us to backup Ziploc machines. It has not been available in the newer version such as six or seven. I have been looking for another solution to accomplish the backups but they should bring back this plugin-type tool to allow older backup capabilities."
"This solution should have a better backup policy. Furthermore, there should be an ability to expose the universal machine. In the current version, you need to shutdown and use an offline virtual machine to backup."
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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