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 works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"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."
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"It is stable."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"The restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"We have seen a tremendous performance boost. From when we started this VMware engagement in 2016 until now, we have seen around a 70 percent performance boost. This is a good number."
"The most valuable features for us are DRS, VMotion, and, of course, some of the analytics that we were able to define to quantify our workloads and tell us how we are able to make our data center more efficient."
"VMware vSphere is user friendly. It is scalable and stable."
"We have seen an improvement in uptime. The whole hardware lifecycle process is easier."
"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."
"The virtualization is set by itself. vSphere is the best way to have a non-host based fixed solution. We always try to find an agnostic environment where we can restore agnostics or just say, "I need resources, capacity." That's why VMware vSphere in particular, has been the best in the past but now also with the evolution of their product. Nowadays, you don't have to use any STEM infrastructure anymore because the bandwidth and the land speeds are getting steeper."
"It is easy to use."
"The scalability is good."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"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."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"Hyper-V is hosted on OS but if your OS scratches you are in big trouble. In addition, if a host fails, automatically the machine and the virtual machine should boot from another source. Those type of features would benefit Hyper-V."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"NSX is a product of VMware vSphere and it would be nice to see the solution have full integration capabilities with it."
"When we talk about the overall private cloud stack, I would prefer for it be a lot more seamless."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
"An improvement could be allowing a "dark mode" for the interface. I think the HTML5 client is a little bit hard to read. It's all white. It's a little bit bright on the eyes. A lot of us IT guys view in the dark."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
"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."
"VMware vSphere is perfect for the on-premise solution, but we are in the cloud era, so I think maybe VMware needs to invest more in the cloud and the microservice chain. It would be better if VMware offered more cloud solutions and continuous applications."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
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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