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 makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"It is good for small installations."
"It is a stable product."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"VMware vSphere helps us in not wasting resources like we did when we were using physical servers. It changed our whole environment."
"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."
"We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"It's easy to use and very user-friendly."
"Its stability and manageability are valuable."
"We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running."
"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."
"Having a virtualized infrastructure and being able to bring up Windows, Linux, and VMware within a virtualized environment brings more technology into the classroom. Without it, we couldn't do what we do."
"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 initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"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."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"There was a time we lost the password for the ESXi and we had to do a hardware reset. At this point, we had to fill up the ESXi from the bottom up. I am not sure if there was another solution to this problem but it took a long time."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"Monitoring information could always be improved."
"They can lower the price of its license."
"I would like to see improvements in simplifying automation, cloud native deployment, administration, and fault resolution."
"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."
"They have multiple components required for the setup. It would be better to integrate it into one solution, especially for small business companies."
"The price could be better."
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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