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 is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"It is a stable product."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"The DRS feature of this solution is a very valuable feature."
"We have the possibility to move workloads to different locations."
"It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the overall virtualization technology and the new features that allow you to move servers from one system to another."
"This solution is very stable. It's scalable and simple to set up."
"The most valuable feature would be enhanced, what we call, Linked Mode to link our disaster recovery site to our primary site across different vCenters, without being required to be broken apart. Meaning, we have identity management and the actual vCenter servers split. We can actually do embedded now, thanks to vSphere 6.7."
"The UI is very intuitive, you don't have to spend hours before you figure it out. All in all, compared to other environments, like Hyper-V, we find vSphere a lot more user-friendly and intuitive to use."
"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."
"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"
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
"Generally, the user interface needs to be improved for non-technical people."
"VMware has amped up how frequently they release new versions and that adds instability to a stable environment."
"To manage it properly, you have to know this product really well."
"VMware vSphere could be improved with cheaper costs."
"The documentation could be improved. It does not help me to show the client the value of going with VMware vSphere rather than an open source or cheaper solution."
"I do not find it to be simple and efficient to manage. The tools, the interface to manage it, are a pain. In the latest version, they moved us to web-only, the Web Client and it's terrible. It's slow. It crashes. It's annoying. I used the Web Client in the older version and was happy. I would go back to the regular thick client but I don't have that option anymore, so I am always fighting it."
"Stability-wise, there are some minor issues."
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, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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