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 most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."
"We can slide in new resources without any impact. We can do maintenance on our clusters without any impact to applications, and we have the flexibility of migrating those workloads to other data centers, when required, in the case of data center downtime."
"It is very versatile. All features are beneficial and very good, especially DRS and resource pooling."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its performance."
"The scalability has been good."
"The ability to monitor resource utilization."
"VMware vSphere is a very stable product."
"We scale it both vertically and hortizonally. We have many data centers on it."
"The GUI is very simple to use."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"Hyper-V serves its purpose, but some areas may not be as feature-rich as alternatives like VMware ESXi."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"The licensing costs for the solution are quite high."
"The initial setup could be better. It manages all the setups, but it's not very straightforward, and it takes time."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"The management could be simplified for base-level customers, but of course, it would be difficult to match all customer needs."
"Reporting on vCenter needs to be improved."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"There should be a bit more flexibility in terms of the hardware we can use with the product."
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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