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.
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature is being able to do checkpoints then roll back to the checkpoint because that's what we need to test the software. We're testing the installation and then we roll it back and retest it."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"The solution has many valuable features. Virtualization is flexible and it has simple clustering. However, the most important feature is the ability to move between VMs. The vMotion features are very good."
"We have seen an improvement in uptime. The whole hardware lifecycle process is easier."
"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 documentation is very good."
"The most valuable feature of vSphere is its modularity. I also like the maturity updates. It's available everywhere and almost all the data centers are using it."
"It is the number one virtualization-layer platform available, and a lot of people trust it."
"Most valuable features of vSphere 6.7, for us, at the management level would be: VCHA is a nice redundancy feature that they added in v6.7. I like the quality of life improvements with the VMFS-6 for using auto UNMAP on the data stores. And we really appreciate the improvements to the Clarity UI where we can manage Update Manager (VUM) and our vSAN stack within the modern interface."
"The solution is scalable."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"The pricing and technical support can be improved."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"I would like Microsoft to put more effort into the Admin Center interface and make it much easier. It is customizable, but you have to be a PowerShell expert to customize these things. That is a limitation."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"The solution is stable. It has some small bugs which are not influencing the main functions but every software has some bugs."
"The only concern that I have with VMware is the support. It is very limited and can be better."
"I would like to see the UI incorporating all of the functionality that the thick client had."
"The web user interface can be a bit clunky from time to time, so there may be some room for improvement in that regard."
"I would like to see VMware vSphere provide a centralized patch service on the VMware level, regardless of your operating systems."
"Generally, the user interface needs to be improved for non-technical people."
"The quality of support could be better."
"Without a lot of physical RAM on the hardware, it's not very effective. The stability could be improved in cases like this."
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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