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.
"One of the most valuable features of Hyper-V is ease to use."
"I like the functionality."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"I like that Hyper-V comes for free with Windows Server. You don't need to buy the license, and you only have to pay for the management aspect in System Center."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from one server to another."
"Hyper-V improved the infrastructure drastically, not only from a performance perspective but from a control/administration view as well."
"Its most valuable features are reliability, for sure, and quickness in getting the job done. I can spin off 100 or 200 machines in the matter of half an hour."
"The solution is easy to use, user-friendly interface and has high availability features. When comparing it to other solutions it is more robust."
"Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature."
"It's a very nice tool to be able to reduce your footprint, consolidate servers, and accumulate several servers in a high-density configuration."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization and the performance on the virtualization platform."
"It is easy to manage the solution. It is scalable and very stable."
"The ability of a running VM to be quickly relocated to another hypervisor or launched at another site via replicated storage greatly reduces downtime."
"The most useful features are ESXi, DRS, Auto Deploy, and the Lifecycle Manager."
"Hyper-V isn't a lightweight solution like VMware. Management could be more straightforward. Even as far as disk management tools are concerned, it would be better if that could be made simpler. The same applies to performance."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"The solution should be compatible with different systems."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"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."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"From my point of view, my advice is to design the solution properly the first time."
"The solution is stable. It has some small bugs which are not influencing the main functions but every software has some bugs."
"It is expensive. They can improve the licensing cost for Cloud Director. They can also improve the integration with other applications and the metering feature, which is currently not flexible."
"In the past, little changes have broken things in vSphere. Going from 6.0, which worked perfectly fine on the Mac Pro, there were certain changes in hardware drivers, when 6.5 came out. Some were no longer present or had been deprecated. As a result, it didn't work on the Mac Pro anymore, which was business critical."
"The price could be better. The licensing is definitely expensive and tech support is sometimes frustrating."
"If they improve on the knowledge base and documentation, it would be extremely helpful."
"These days we have an environment where we are often using clouds as well. A solution that would be a little more cloud-aware would be really helpful. I know there is a product from VMware that is more specifically for the cloud, but it would be nice if VMware Cloud Manager would be cloud-aware. It would simplify certain processes."
"They must work on the price, as well as the technical support."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". 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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