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.
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"An important vSphere feature from a security perspective is VM encryption. As is the right thing to do in this day and age, security needs to be the number one concern for any IT operator. While there are security solutions which can be delivered at the physical, hardware layer, they don't necessarily address all of the requirements from an encryption perspective. Being able to have VM-centric, VM-level encryption is a great feature of vSphere."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the ease of deployment. It's also user-friendly and has been on the market for more than a decade, so it's a leading technology in hypervisor solutions."
"VMware vSphere has helped us create our infrastructures and provide services for our customers."
"You see more responsiveness, especially now with having the HTML5 client. It feels like a much snappier product."
"Overall, it is a pretty good solution. We do not have to worry about upgrading the versions that people use for our in-house software. We just create ThinApps, and as soon as they log in, they always get the upgraded version. This part really works well for us."
"VMware vSphere is a stable platform. We never had any issues with VMware vSphere. Once you deploy it with a stable version of the server or the hardware, there's no issue at all."
"Stable and secure management console for virtual environments, with a diligent technical support team."
"We use it for our VDI infrastructure and managing virtual machines."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"Storage via SMB3."
"The solution should be compatible with different systems."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"We previously had a hard time using tech support."
"It could be more scalable."
"They can maybe review its price. They can also consider offering a free public version for development for a certain number of users."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"We need to improve availability and disaster recovery in VMware vSphere."
"The documentation could be improved. It does not help me to show the client the value of going with VMware vSphere rather than an open source or cheaper solution."
"The Web Client is too slow."
"We would like to see the container-based operating system launched soon for this solution."
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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