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 very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"It is an affordable platform."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"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."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"It has allowed us to be more resilient to infrastructure and hardware failure, reduced hardware costs, and decreased recovery time from failures."
"I don't see any challenges in using this product."
"It's much more stable than other products. It is scalable and easy to implement as well."
"The solution has high availability."
"The most valuable feature is being able to VMotion and migrate easily, moving machines around on the host. I know DRS will take care of a lot about that, but there's still some manual intervention here and there, so the flexibility of it has been really good."
"It is easy to maintain our data machines and take snapshots with the solution."
"The feature that I find very valuable is the ability to move images of virtual machines from different workspaces to other workspaces between different installations."
"vMotion is one of the most useful features, which helps to provide both flexibility and High Availability. With new versions of vSphere and vCenter, it is still improving (e.g., vMotion across vCenter Servers and virtual switches)."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"The backup site could be better. We used to face a lot of issues, and we are looking to solve that now. We are in the process of moving all the infrastructure to the cloud. It could also use more integration on the management part. We also need more integration on the monitoring sites."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
"I would like to see VMware vSphere provide a centralized patch service on the VMware level, regardless of your operating systems."
"I would like more Amazon stuff inside of VMware."
"The improvement is more from a licensing perspective rather than from a feature functionality perspective. There could be more flexibility and fewer model options to make it easier to sell. Today, there are so many different options available, and sometimes, it is not really clear which one is the right version or the right model to propose."
"The price could be better. The licensing is definitely expensive and tech support is sometimes frustrating."
"Technical support is not that great. It is too slow."
"It is expensive."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
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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