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 most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"The implementation process is simple."
"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."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"We can slide in new resources without any impact. We can do maintenance on our clusters without any impact to applications, and we have the flexibility of migrating those workloads to other data centers, when required, in the case of data center downtime."
"It affords us different views of the VMs created by vSphere so we can control them better."
"It is a very dependable solution. Its performance is very good, and it is also easy to manage and implement."
"I like that it's like a distributed rescheduler. You can move to and use VMotion as well. You can move the server and move the virtual machines around different physical servers. This makes it easier when it comes to redundancy."
"With VMware vSphere, it is easy to manage the scaling of our company's virtual infrastructure."
"It makes managing your virtual servers easier and more centralized."
"Valuable features include VHA, DRS, VMotion, and redundancy and failover; any DR situation."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"VMware has amped up how frequently they release new versions and that adds instability to a stable environment."
"I would like having something that works on a smaller screen, so we can get to it on our iPads and have it more touch-centric versus having to sit at a laptop."
"The solution could be a bit more user-friendly."
"I know VMWare has this Operations Manager. I know that it comes at a price because VMWare normally wants to charge for everything in the software. But I'm not seeing all the features of the Operations Manager. I only see a few features. If all the features can be included in one package, that would be good."
"Technical support is not that great. It is too slow."
"An area for improvement is that when comparing VMware to Nutanix, Nutanix has higher availability, like clustering for virtual machines. That is a good idea and VMware could profit from something like that for higher availability installations."
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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