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 very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"It's easy to use, and it is flexible."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"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."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"Tech support is very knowledgeable."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the ease of deployment. It's also user-friendly and has been on the market for more than a decade, so it's a leading technology in hypervisor solutions."
"The main benefit of the version 6.7 is that it makes end-users able to use the interface much more effectively. They don't have to install a client on their machine, they can do it from their phone, their laptop, their tablet, any OS, anytime. It's a better experience for the end-user."
"Workloads; We use vSphere for mission-critical apps including SAP and and part of our internal development in C+, for the solution that collects everything for the buyers."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"Storage via SMB3."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
"VMware vSphere needs to increase the datastore volume."
"Stability-wise, there are some minor issues."
"The vSphere Client always feels slow, and/or like it doesn't keep up with what I'm trying to do. So I usually use the thick client most of the time."
"VMware vSphere could be improved with cheaper costs."
"I would like to see VDP and other features included to back up the VMs in a native manner."
"They can maybe review its price. They can also consider offering a free public version for development for a certain number of users."
"The solution’s pricing is too high and could be improved."
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, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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