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.
"I like that Hyper-V comes for free with Windows Server. You don't need to buy the license, and you only have to pay for the management aspect in System Center."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"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."
"It is an affordable platform."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"The virtualization this solution offer is very complete for the infrastructure."
"Server Virtualization is the most important feature because that helps me to utilize 100% capacity of my physical server or box. Its redundancy, uptime, or high-availability is also valuable. Storage-sharing is also valuable. In vSAN, I can utilize the maximum storage. In the physical boxes, if you don't require storage, it lies idle, but with VMware or any kind of virtualization, you can utilize the full storage."
"Technical support is quite good and very responsive."
"VMware Tanzu (container) is the most valuable addition because you get an efficient solution to manage the VM and container in a single pane of glass."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"The installation process is very straightforward."
"Server consolidation. Getting rid of our physical servers and going virtual is saving us some money in overall rack space."
"The easy of use with reduced space provides a better use of infrastructure"
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"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."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"There is room for improvement in Google Cloud. The reason thing there was, like, when I type something in the terminal and then immediately, I need to go to edit the certain like file for Node.js, for the server, or for Kubernetes. So I have to do it from the terminal to the editor."
"vSphere itself is great when you don't need to make updates, but any time you have to touch it, unfortunately it's always the little bit of a fight to get it to do what you want."
"It could be more scalable."
"The only concern that I have with VMware is the support. It is very limited and can be better."
"Pricing is starting to get a little high-end."
"I would like to see a more automated upgrade, where you take the other products into account, so you can upgrade the entire VMware stack from a single interface."
"The vSphere Client always feels slow, and/or like it doesn't keep up with what I'm trying to do. So I usually use the thick client most of the time."
"The cost could always be lower."
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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