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.
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"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."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"We have the possibility to move workloads to different locations."
"It is very easy to use and very stable."
"The solution is very straightforward to implement."
"The interface is good."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the overall good ease of use and the good interface which makes it very easy to migrate from one bare metal to another. These are the two things which I like about it."
"It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve."
"The latest innovation always comes from VMware."
"VMware vSphere has helped us create our infrastructures and provide services for our customers."
"I am using this solution with E-Notes. I heard that there will be future improvements in integration of the E-notes systems. This would be very helpful."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"There are certain tools the can't run in parallel and occasionally, in those instances, we have trouble migrating customers from one source to our data center."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"NSX is a product of VMware vSphere and it would be nice to see the solution have full integration capabilities with it."
"Stability-wise, there are some minor issues."
"VMware vSphere is perfect for the on-premise solution, but we are in the cloud era, so I think maybe VMware needs to invest more in the cloud and the microservice chain. It would be better if VMware offered more cloud solutions and continuous applications."
"The container management could be improved. It's far from perfect right now."
"Where I think there is room for improvement is in the HTML5 interface in vCenter. What it lacks, for me, is integrating to VMware's other products, especially NSX."
"The solution should be more secure."
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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