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 deployment is very user-friendly. It supports partial scripting and offers a UI for a smooth experience. There's also PowerShell scripting available for advanced users."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"I like that it's like a distributed rescheduler. You can move to and use VMotion as well. You can move the server and move the virtual machines around different physical servers. This makes it easier when it comes to redundancy."
"The solution has many valuable features. Virtualization is flexible and it has simple clustering. However, the most important feature is the ability to move between VMs. The vMotion features are very good."
"This product is useful for running multiple virtual machines from a single server so that people can utilize the hardware resources in their organization. Its ability for backups is also valuable. In case of a disaster, you can recover the entire server from the images. It is easy to use. In terms of features, whatever they are providing is more than sufficient for us. We are not exploiting this product up to a hundred percent."
"Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem."
"Most valuable features are quick provisioning, High Availability, and DRS for balancing workload."
"Tech support is very knowledgeable."
"The VMware community is always there and it is a valuable resource."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
"It could be more scalable."
"I'm using vSphere at a high level. Sometimes, I find it challenging to integrate different networks, but I think it's just my lack of knowledge."
"Response time could be improved."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
"The price could be better."
"I'd like to see a little bit more integration for VDI. I think that Composer servers, security servers, broker servers with connections, I'm not sure they are necessary at this point. Perhaps they could have a lot of those functions baked directly into the hypervisor. It seems to me that if the hypervisor is scalable and flexible enough, that the processor and compute can handle all of that. Maybe we eliminate those other components for VDIs and have more mixed workloads: server workloads and desktop workloads all in the same hypervisor."
"I would like to see DRS for the GPU machines."
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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