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 stable product."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"The interface is quite good."
"Since it is riding inside of a multi-hardware environment, downtime is virtually nothing."
"The stability of the solution is excellent."
"One of the most valuable features that vSphere has is its HA and DRS protection, where it can simply make sure that all the machines are always where they need to be and how they need to be taken care of. We have a lot of servers and services for emergency services for police, fire, and the like. We have the ability to use DRS as Anti-Affinity Rules to make sure that those redundant server pairs always stay away from each other. But then, if anything would happen to one of them, we have HA to be able to come up and bring it right up and going again."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"We could easily move workloads from on-premises to the cloud and vice versa if we were running on-premises and cloud, which is one of the most important points in the new releases, in particular."
"Visibility: We can easily pull reports and give access to other people to look at specs or performance metrics."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"VMware vSphere has useful tools for management and support."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"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 corrupted volume is a problem."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"VMware vSphere could be more secure and well-known to everyone."
"It is not easy to upgrade VMware vSphere from an old version to a new version."
"The technical support is poor. We are in Australia, but we do not have the same level of support as the US and Europe."
"Technical support could be faster in terms of response times."
"Two improvements that I would like to see are higher resolution console modes for guests and easier switching between consoles."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
"There is definitely room for improvement and that improvement should be in the licensing and the simplicity of procuring additional licenses or additional VMware products. Right now, it's very complex."
"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."
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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