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.
"The implementation process is simple."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"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 most valuable features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"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 is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"It's a very manageable product."
"I think that the solution is perfect. It's the best on the market."
"It is easy to deploy and find troubleshooting articles as well."
"VMware vSphere has plenty of features."
"Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature."
"The solution is also very simple and efficient to manage. Features that have made it simple and easy to manage include the newer VAMI for the V-center appliance, it's very easy to see what version we are at, and very easy to upgrade to the next version. The fact that we can now use VCHA at the appliance level just decreases our chance of having an outage because so many of our customers rely on the API interface for V-center."
"The scalability of the solution is good. You can scale up to maximum levels."
"Basic hypervisor functions with HA."
"It helps us with TCO."
"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 should be compatible with different systems."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"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 might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"The technical support is not too bad, but not the best."
"VMware vSphere needs to increase the datastore volume."
"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"There are some limitations with the solution regarding migrating."
"The hardware cost is high."
"The biggest room for improvement would be just simplicity. It is very intuitive, but it needs somebody with a lot of IT background."
"It would be good if the licensing cost of the solution could be cheaper."
"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 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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