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.
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"The installation was straightforward."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"The scalability has been good."
"VMware vSphere has a lot of features that are valuable, such as multiple clusters, VM mobility, VDI, and virtual desktop."
"Technical support is helpful and always available."
"The virtualization this solution offer is very complete for the infrastructure."
"I like stability and the organization of the different functions into the I#M feature which is also quite useful, quite stable."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"I have found the solution to be flexible, and the vCenter and vMotion useful."
"The solution allows for very good virtualization."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"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."
"I recommend that VMware vSphere continue to release more features."
"We are provided with a mini dashboard that has been improved in the latest version but it still could be better. The monitoring is now available on the vCenter dashboard and the vROps has been added to the basic version that had to be purchased separately before. A complete dashboard has always been provided with some competitors, such as Nutanix."
"There are some limitations with the solution regarding migrating."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"VMware has amped up how frequently they release new versions and that adds instability to a stable environment."
"It is expensive. They can improve the licensing cost for Cloud Director. They can also improve the integration with other applications and the metering feature, which is currently not flexible."
"It could be more scalable."
"The one area where I would love to see an improvement is the HTML5 client. It's great, but it could get better."
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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