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 virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"The solution is easy to use, user-friendly interface and has high availability features. When comparing it to other solutions it is more robust."
"The most valuable features are the vMotion, the storage vMotion, the DRS, and the high availability function."
"It is highly scalable. We can add new hardware and expand the infrastructure easily."
"The scalability has been good."
"Visibility: We can easily pull reports and give access to other people to look at specs or performance metrics."
"It's a very nice tool to be able to reduce your footprint, consolidate servers, and accumulate several servers in a high-density configuration."
"It's easy to use and very user-friendly."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the ease of deployment. It's also user-friendly and has been on the market for more than a decade, so it's a leading technology in hypervisor solutions."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"Hyper-V's management platform falls short in terms of scalability, especially when handling multiple Hyper-V servers. VMware has a central console to pull in all your VM servers, so you can easily manage them all through one console. You can manage servers in Hyper-V's admin centers, but it's not as scalable. It's doable with a couple of Hyper-V servers, but it becomes harder to manage when you get over two or three Hyper-V servers."
"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."
"Customer support takes a long time to respond."
"I would like to see AI in future releases."
"Security and patch-related items need improvement."
"The one area where I would love to see an improvement is the HTML5 client. It's great, but it could get better."
"They need to further develop graphics virtualization."
"Inability to get to a single hypervisor environment to support a container environment."
"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."
"It would be good if the licensing cost of the solution could be cheaper."
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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