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 is actually very low on resources. It doesn't use many resources. It is also very easy to tailor. You can change things like the amount of memory and storage on the fly. It is very stable and reliable. I like its replication feature, which is very good. It is also very easy to move the virtual machines across push servers without any difficulty. Its performance is also very good. Now with this pandemic, a lot of workers are working from home. A lot of workers have been using laptops as their desktop computers, and they would remote into a virtual PC. There is no difficulty, and they can't tell the difference between this and the real one. It is much easier to manage."
"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."
"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's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"The most valuable feature is being able to do checkpoints then roll back to the checkpoint because that's what we need to test the software. We're testing the installation and then we roll it back and retest it."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization and the performance on the virtualization platform."
"VMware vSphere is easy to scale. We haven't had any problems scaling what we're scaling now."
"You don't need too many people to manage the solution once it's up and running."
"The roadmap for the product itself covers all of the features that we are looking for."
"VMware vSphere is the best private-cloud solution."
"The most valuable feature is the VDP Backup solution."
"Virtualization, VDI and application publishing are the most valuable features of VMware vSphere."
"This solution is very stable. It's scalable and simple to set up."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"The solution is heavily reliant on Microsoft's active directory for authentication, for coordination between nodes. Therefore, it inherits all the issues that are within the active directory."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
"An improvement could be in terms of keeping up with the upgrades. The upgrades could be set in an automated way so that the newer features don't require you to manually update, or you get an option to update automatically. This would be a useful enhancement."
"It would be nice to see it a little more tightly integrated with the patching solution so you could do it in one pane of glass. Right now, you have to jump back and forth. It's still not difficult, but you have to jump back and forth to do your update definitions and then go back and actually do the updates themselves."
"In the past, little changes have broken things in vSphere. Going from 6.0, which worked perfectly fine on the Mac Pro, there were certain changes in hardware drivers, when 6.5 came out. Some were no longer present or had been deprecated. As a result, it didn't work on the Mac Pro anymore, which was business critical."
"VMware vSphere could be more secure and well-known to everyone."
"The solution could be cheaper and less expensive."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
"The technical support is not too bad, but not the best."
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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