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.
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The initial setup is simple. There's not much to do. We input one command or just one or two clicks on the UI. Initial setup in the Windows environment for any software is not that difficult."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"The connectivity is fantastic, and many functions can run together in one server. If you need to scale, we can continue to add components or modules. It's a beautiful virtual solution that has many advantages over physical hardware, where you have to use devices and wiring to connect all your projects."
"Its most valuable features are reliability, for sure, and quickness in getting the job done. I can spin off 100 or 200 machines in the matter of half an hour."
"I have found the Storage vMotion feature to be the most valuable."
"VMware vSphere allows you to run multiple virtual machines."
"Overall, it is a pretty good solution. We do not have to worry about upgrading the versions that people use for our in-house software. We just create ThinApps, and as soon as they log in, they always get the upgraded version. This part really works well for us."
"There are no issues with the level of scalability you can achieve."
"It is absolutely simple and efficient to manage. We can bring in people who have never been exposed to vSphere or virtualized environments and they're still able to support it from a server standpoint. The training time as well as the adoption rate, for a junior technician or somebody coming right out of college, is very good."
"I like stability and the organization of the different functions into the I#M feature which is also quite useful, quite stable."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"I would like Microsoft to put more effort into the Admin Center interface and make it much easier. It is customizable, but you have to be a PowerShell expert to customize these things. That is a limitation."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"The HR proxy is actually a little bit tricky to install and setup."
"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."
"The technical support is poor. We are in Australia, but we do not have the same level of support as the US and Europe."
"The installation is complex and you need to have a good understanding in regards to what you are doing when you are setting it up."
"The monitoring is not good in vSphere, many times you have latency or you cannot find what you want. The events should be improved."
"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."
"It is not easy to upgrade VMware vSphere from an old version to a new version."
"I would suggest that the tool reconsider its pricing strategy. The recent price hikes could potentially pose a problem for VMware in the future. The recent price increases, especially since Broadcom acquired them, seem excessive. There are reports of businesses experiencing massive price hikes, sometimes as much as 10-30 times higher. This is causing smaller businesses to consider exiting the space altogether."
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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