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 runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"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."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"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."
"Hyper-V is much easier to deploy because Hyper-V is already installed inside Windows Server OS. You only need to turn on Hyper-V as a service, and then you can use it. The most convenient thing about Hyper-V is the operating system."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"VMware vSphere has plenty of features."
"Scalability is the big advantage of it. The product itself allows us to scale on the fly as we need it, and plan for the future."
"Server consolidation. Getting rid of our physical servers and going virtual is saving us some money in overall rack space."
"I use customization to prevent any network and DNS collisions to the router."
"It gives us the ability to be running over 250+ VMs on five physical hosts and in various flavours of guest OSs."
"Cross vendor integration is in my opinion one of the best features."
"The virtualization, the remote management user interface, and the web console are most valuable."
"The scalability of the solution is good. You can scale up to maximum levels."
"In general, based on my little experience with Hyper-V, I see a lot of obstacles. I think it falls behind the other competitors."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"Hyper-V is hosted on OS but if your OS scratches you are in big trouble. In addition, if a host fails, automatically the machine and the virtual machine should boot from another source. Those type of features would benefit Hyper-V."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"As far as the web client goes, one of the frustrating things is that it's dependent on different browsers. One day it may work with only a given browser or there may be issues with Flash. So I look forward to being able to use the HTML 5 client."
"VMware vSphere could be more secure and well-known to everyone."
"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."
"The biggest pain point is probably the firmware management of the underlying hardware. It could be a lot better."
"VMware vSphere needs to increase the datastore volume."
"There needs to be more integration overall. That would be quite helpful."
"The installation can take a long time, they need to improve on the simplicity and length of the installation."
"An area for improvement is that when comparing VMware to Nutanix, Nutanix has higher availability, like clustering for virtual machines. That is a good idea and VMware could profit from something like that for higher availability installations."
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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