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've probably seen a 50 percent speed increase on our SQL server. Hyper-V has also significantly reduced our downtimes with faster boot-up and reboot. If we have to reboot a server, there is maybe two or three minutes of downtime. When we were on a bare-metal server, it could be five to ten minutes due to the total boot time."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"It is a stable product."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"I have found the Storage vMotion feature to be the most valuable."
"Their command-line tools integrate well with other Microsoft products like PowerShell, so I can manipulate VMs using it."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its performance."
"From the interface, you see how much CPU utilization and RAM utilization that each one of those hosts is giving you. You can tell ahead of time when you need to start expanding the environment. And with VMotion, you expand the environment and then let DRS have at it and walk away."
"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."
"Technical support is helpful and always available."
"We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"I use customization to prevent any network and DNS collisions to the router."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"We have our scientific network, and it's run off the university sever, and we need two servers to optimize our scientific work, such as the mathematics work. Then you have to work with Python and Java, and Microsoft isn't the best option for this kind of work"
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"There are occasionally bugs or errors."
"As we continue to push mission-critical workloads into vSphere, and those workloads are not readily protected at the application layer for availability, continuing to increase the size limitations on FT-protected VMs would be a great advance."
"It could improve the hyper-conversions."
"The solution is stable. It has some small bugs which are not influencing the main functions but every software has some bugs."
"There are certain tools the can't run in parallel and occasionally, in those instances, we have trouble migrating customers from one source to our data center."
"Get the HTML5 client to 100% parity to replace the Flash client."
"The management could be simplified for base-level customers, but of course, it would be difficult to match all customer needs."
"The price could be better."
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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