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.
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"The performance is very good."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"It's easy to use, and it is flexible."
"I like the capability of vMotion, DRS, high availability, and resource distribution."
"The most valuable feature is the VDP Backup solution."
"Ease of support is one of the main features that we have with it. We're able to take Snapshots before doing updates to make it easy to roll back if something does happen to go wrong."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to revert to previous snapshots during testing of various guest and application deployments."
"Valuable features really depend on different projects. We are using the traditional infrastructure based on VMware vSphere. We are also using the high availability (HA) and Distributed Switch features to extend our network and switch between different hosts. The VMotion and SVMotion features are very essential for us to relocate the storage of virtual machines to different storage or vSANs. We are using VMotion and SVMotion features several times of the day. We are also using another VMware product to replicate a lot of solutions to a second replication site."
"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."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"I would love to see other options for connecting VMs to large data storage."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"The only negative thing I heard was that the baseline price is very, very attractive relative to VMware, however, the vCenter counterpart, the thing that brings it all together, is quite pricey."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"It could use a smaller learning curve."
"The one area where I would love to see an improvement is the HTML5 client. It's great, but it could get better."
"Its price should be better. Their support should also be more customer-friendly, and they should train people like us so that we know more about the latest technologies and features. If there is some program and drive from their side to teach us, it is definitely going to help us. Pricing and support are the most important features for mid-level companies. We are not implementing this solution for big tech companies."
"It would be nice if it had auto-scaling, no need to select CPU or select database size. Let it auto-scale, let it use the features that VMware has, instead of having to preselect."
"As far as the web client goes, one of the frustrating things is that it's dependent on different browsers. One day it may work with only a given browser or there may be issues with Flash. So I look forward to being able to use the HTML 5 client."
"vSphere could perhaps be improved by more integration or better security."
"VMware vSphere does not permit hard partitioning."
"The biggest issue with stability is the SSO. That is still an issue as far as integrating it with Active Directory, and any large scale of it."
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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