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 easy to configure."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"The performance is very good."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"Hyper-V can expand storage. For instance, if I have a VM running on NetApp or another platform, I can expand the storage without interrupting operations. It is useful when I need to quickly allocate more storage without causing downtime or performing maintenance tasks."
"The setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"VMware vSphere is easy to scale. We haven't had any problems scaling what we're scaling now."
"The solution is very straightforward to implement."
"The product offers good stability."
"VMware vSphere is user-friendly and simple."
"Our customers opt for virtualization because it's cheaper and better than non-virtualized solutions. VMware is probably the best on the market now."
"Using vSphere we have virtualized over one thousand servers and this gave us management, cost and datacenter space advantages."
"The visibility that we have of our VMs is also important. What's being applied? Who has management of them? Laying it out in a virtual environment allows us customization for our students. We're able to respond to the students' needs much more quickly than we could in a physical environment."
"An easy way of providing near-zero downtime services, the operation of the instances between clustered services, and providing the projected SLA for our customers."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"The solution should be compatible with different systems."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"Monitoring information could always be improved."
"The technical support could improve by being a little faster."
"The technical support is good. However, it could be more seamless when it comes to chat support and lower response times."
"We'd always like to see the price drop, but I realize that may not be realistic."
"We previously had a hard time using tech support."
"The HR proxy is actually a little bit tricky to install and setup."
"As we introduce the DevOps culture, we need to make sure that the principles and tools used to support this approach can be easily integrated and interoperated with the vSphere environment with no (or less) redundancy in tools and functionality."
"It is expensive."
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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