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 restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"I think all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"The solution is highly stable."
"I think the cluster environment is a good feature of Hyper-V because, if something happens, then it will automatically move to some other mode. This is a great feature of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"The installation was straightforward."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"VMware's high availability which supports our SLA, VMware on the fly features like LUN expansion, P2V and API integrations are the most valuable features."
"We have the possibility to move workloads to different locations."
"We are able to create virtual machines and move them from one host to another, controlling the resources."
"It stands out as a comprehensive and advantageous solution, providing a full package that effectively caters to our needs for managing our private cloud."
"The ability of a running VM to be quickly relocated to another hypervisor or launched at another site via replicated storage greatly reduces downtime."
"The fact that vSphere is an on-premise solution is beneficial for the user. It's easier to manage the infrastructure. It's more straightforward to scale and configure virtual machines."
"It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs."
"In an upcoming release, they can improve by having better cloud integration. We are all moving towards the clouds and the integration is only through the Azure Stack, there should be tools built in to move the VMs natively to the cloud and infrastructure. Additionally, they could provide some form of multi-cloud integration."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"There are certain tools the can't run in parallel and occasionally, in those instances, we have trouble migrating customers from one source to our data center."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved."
"The implementation of VMware vSphere is easy. For integration companies, it's easy, the final client cannot do it alone but for an implementor it's easy."
"It could be more scalable."
"Not having to buy something from a third-party to scan the actual hardware components, like the hard drives and the port containers and fan speeds; not having to bolt something on and go through another vendor, would be helpful."
"I would like to see DRS for the GPU machines."
"Its cost needs to be improved. It is very expensive as compared to other solutions."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 30 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 14 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "Enables the creation of secure, isolated virtual environments for running applications and allows seamless transfer of virtual machines between nodes without impacting users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers a suite of software components for virtualization including ESXi, vCenter Server, and other software". 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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