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.
"It's a stable product."
"The flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"It's a very manageable product."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"One of the most valuable features of Hyper-V is ease to use."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"The DRS feature of this solution is a very valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vMotion."
"Using vSphere we have virtualized over one thousand servers and this gave us management, cost and datacenter space advantages."
"The solution has high availability."
"The fact that you can use all the CPU and memory power that the server can provide is most valuable. In a physical server, you might end up not using all the physical resources. There are a lot of benefits, such as flexibility and mobility, in virtualizing computes."
"Reduces downtime."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSphere is the ability to work in a big system infrastructure."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"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."
"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."
"The Hyper-V management console could be improved to make it easier. It should be a little bit more granular. Various virtual switches could also be improved to make virtual desk management slightly better. The replication could be improved slightly. The checkpoints or snapshots could be improved to make it a bit more transparent to the user."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
"Its price should be better. Their support should also be more customer-friendly, and they should train people like us so that we know more about the latest technologies and features. If there is some program and drive from their side to teach us, it is definitely going to help us. Pricing and support are the most important features for mid-level companies. We are not implementing this solution for big tech companies."
"Sometimes you can't find items and you need to log onto different physical servers to do technical tasks. I don't fully understand why this is the case."
"They have multiple components required for the setup. It would be better to integrate it into one solution, especially for small business companies."
"In future releases, I would like to see less pricing. The license can be improved."
"Where I think there is room for improvement is in the HTML5 interface in vCenter. What it lacks, for me, is integrating to VMware's other products, especially NSX."
"Inability to get to a single hypervisor environment to support a container environment."
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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