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.
"I find that most of the competition is more or less the same. However, Hyper-V is, when you compare it to the older platforms like VMware, a little bit more advanced at this stage."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"I like the functionality."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"I definitely like the stability, performance and ease-of-use."
"I have found the solution to be flexible, and the vCenter and vMotion useful."
"The main benefit of the version 6.7 is that it makes end-users able to use the interface much more effectively. They don't have to install a client on their machine, they can do it from their phone, their laptop, their tablet, any OS, anytime. It's a better experience for the end-user."
"The solution can scale well."
"The provisioning setup of VMs is good."
"It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSphere is the ability to work in a big system infrastructure."
"The enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"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."
"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"
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"The vSphere Client always feels slow, and/or like it doesn't keep up with what I'm trying to do. So I usually use the thick client most of the time."
"On Vista, there should be a lot more new features. We would like to see more security features to harden our environment in the future."
"Customer support takes a long time to respond."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"The support for the latest version could be improved."
"The support is good, but it's slow."
"If they improve on the knowledge base and documentation, it would be extremely helpful."
"Not having to buy something from a third-party to scan the actual hardware components, like the hard drives and the port containers and fan speeds; not having to bolt something on and go through another vendor, would be helpful."
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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