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.
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from one server to another."
"It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs."
"The most valuable feature is being able to VMotion and migrate easily, moving machines around on the host. I know DRS will take care of a lot about that, but there's still some manual intervention here and there, so the flexibility of it has been really good."
"Stability and scalability are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The fact that vSphere is an on-premise solution is beneficial for the user. It's easier to manage the infrastructure. It's more straightforward to scale and configure virtual machines."
"Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem."
"The enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization and the performance on the virtualization platform."
"The most valuable feature is vSAN, as it reduces the cost of SAN storage and maintenance."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"VMware has antivirus protection that covers the entire VM. If Microsoft could have something similar to this in Hyper-V, that would be great."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"VMware has amped up how frequently they release new versions and that adds instability to a stable environment."
"The reporting could be improved."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"vSphere itself is great when you don't need to make updates, but any time you have to touch it, unfortunately it's always the little bit of a fight to get it to do what you want."
"Technical support could be faster in terms of response times."
"Without a lot of physical RAM on the hardware, it's not very effective. The stability could be improved in cases like this."
"I would like to see improvements in simplifying automation, cloud native deployment, administration, and fault resolution."
"Sentencing has changed a lot."
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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