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 support with Microsoft is great."
"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."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"The installation was straightforward."
"VMware vSphere is user-friendly and simple."
"It is very versatile. All features are beneficial and very good, especially DRS and resource pooling."
"The scalability is good."
"The ability to monitor resource utilization."
"vSphere brings the features required for an enterprise class system with a lot of supporting components: An intuitive user experience that simplifies and helps operational management."
"The interface is good."
"The ease of movement of these machines is the most valuable. It is very easy to move these machines between physical hosts. The fast deployment of services is another valuable feature."
"Server consolidation. Getting rid of our physical servers and going virtual is saving us some money in overall rack space."
"In an upcoming release, they can improve by having better cloud integration. We are all moving towards the clouds and the integration is only through the Azure Stack, there should be tools built in to move the VMs natively to the cloud and infrastructure. Additionally, they could provide some form of multi-cloud integration."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"There's room for improvement in Hyper-V. One area I've personally encountered issues with is live migration. Sometimes during live migrations, the process gets stuck in a certain state. This can happen with replication as well. It's not necessarily a major problem, but at times, the error messages aren't very informative. They don't clearly explain why the migration failed."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"Storage via SMB3."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"The reporting could be improved."
"They can maybe review its price. They can also consider offering a free public version for development for a certain number of users."
"I'd like to get rid of the Flash Client. There are still some things we need to go in there and use it for, some plugins and other things aren't supported in the HTML5."
"There are occasionally bugs or errors."
"Two improvements that I would like to see are higher resolution console modes for guests and easier switching between consoles."
"Reducing the cost of vSphere would be an improvement."
"On Vista, there should be a lot more new features. We would like to see more security features to harden our environment in the future."
"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."
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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