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 solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"It's a very manageable product."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"It helps us build servers."
"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."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"It is good for small installations."
"VMware vSphere allows you to run multiple virtual machines."
"We scale it both vertically and hortizonally. We have many data centers on it."
"In terms of overall features, vSphere's stability stands out on top. Not only is it highly stable, but we're also able to have a quick backup server on standby."
"It is very stable and scalable, and implementation is straightforward as well."
"With the current compliance options that I have to go through, it's very nice to have a lot of the encryption built in. It checks a lot of boxes for the federal level so I don't have to either bolt something on or have something on top of it. Having it native and integrated into the system makes things much easier."
"It stands out as a comprehensive and advantageous solution, providing a full package that effectively caters to our needs for managing our private cloud."
"VMware vSphere is a very stable product."
"I have found the solution to be flexible, and the vCenter and vMotion useful."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"VMware has antivirus protection that covers the entire VM. If Microsoft could have something similar to this in Hyper-V, that would be great."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"The solution's technical team is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
"The technical support could improve by being a little faster."
"On Vista, there should be a lot more new features. We would like to see more security features to harden our environment in the future."
"They should make it more efficient and stable."
"When it comes to cross-regional (e.g., someone in the US managing the China vSphere implementations), it can be a somewhat slow. I would recommend increasing the speed. While there has already been improvement there, I would like to see more."
"In the past, little changes have broken things in vSphere. Going from 6.0, which worked perfectly fine on the Mac Pro, there were certain changes in hardware drivers, when 6.5 came out. Some were no longer present or had been deprecated. As a result, it didn't work on the Mac Pro anymore, which was business critical."
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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