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."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"It's a stable product."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"We've found the High Availability and flexibility to be important."
"The virtualization is set by itself. vSphere is the best way to have a non-host based fixed solution. We always try to find an agnostic environment where we can restore agnostics or just say, "I need resources, capacity." That's why VMware vSphere in particular, has been the best in the past but now also with the evolution of their product. Nowadays, you don't have to use any STEM infrastructure anymore because the bandwidth and the land speeds are getting steeper."
"The web console is the most valuable feature for me. Because no matter what happens with the server, I can still get to it with the web console."
"Cross vendor integration is in my opinion one of the best features."
"The solution has many valuable features. Virtualization is flexible and it has simple clustering. However, the most important feature is the ability to move between VMs. The vMotion features are very good."
"The solution is very straightforward to implement."
"It's much more stable than other products. It is scalable and easy to implement as well."
"being able to manage a lot of servers in one pane of glass makes things a lot simpler. Basically, a lot of things just happen in one area. You can roll things over, move things around more dynamically, without having to hit multiple systems."
"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."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"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."
"When it comes to Hyper-V the worst thing is it's based on the Windows operating system. For the installation of Hyper-V, you're supposed to install the right operating system. For me, it's strange."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"Sentencing has changed a lot."
"When I use VMware and Citrix there are conflicts."
"The ability to run ARM based VMs on an x86 platform for testing purposes. With the growing use of SBCs running on ARM architectures for IoT devices, it would be very useful if developers could build and deploy VMs running operating systems like Raspbian used on Raspberry Pi devices on their existing x86 ESXi environments. Even if this is not possible through some form of emulation, the ability to add ARM hypervisors to vSphere environments would be very useful. This will enable more rapid development cycles for customers just getting started with IoT but already existing vSphere users."
"VMware vSphere needs to increase the datastore volume."
"There should be a bit more flexibility in terms of the hardware we can use with the product."
"The container management could be improved. It's far from perfect right now."
"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."
"We need to improve availability and disaster recovery in VMware vSphere."
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, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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