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 easy to configure."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"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."
"It's extremely simple. Installing the ESXi is a piece of cake and then putting servers on there is really simple and having HA and building a cluster for our VM servers. It's very easy."
"It makes managing your virtual servers easier and more centralized."
"Cross vendor integration is in my opinion one of the best features."
"The most valuable feature of vSphere is its modularity. I also like the maturity updates. It's available everywhere and almost all the data centers are using it."
"The most valuable features for us are HA, DRS, and SDRS."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"I definitely like the stability, performance and ease-of-use."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"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."
"The solution is stable. It has some small bugs which are not influencing the main functions but every software has some bugs."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"From my point of view, my advice is to design the solution properly the first time."
"OS templates should be readily available, so there is no need to get an OS separately. Only the activation part should be different, which is not presently available due to the need to get the OS from a different location, then create VMs."
"The Web Client is too slow."
"The hardware cost is high."
"It needs to integrate better between multiple modules."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
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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