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 stable."
"I find that most of the competition is more or less the same. However, Hyper-V is, when you compare it to the older platforms like VMware, a little bit more advanced at this stage."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"The flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"Cross vendor integration is in my opinion one of the best features."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"VMware vSphere has helped us create our infrastructures and provide services for our customers."
"Valuable features really depend on different projects. We are using the traditional infrastructure based on VMware vSphere. We are also using the high availability (HA) and Distributed Switch features to extend our network and switch between different hosts. The VMotion and SVMotion features are very essential for us to relocate the storage of virtual machines to different storage or vSANs. We are using VMotion and SVMotion features several times of the day. We are also using another VMware product to replicate a lot of solutions to a second replication site."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution saves cost."
"The vMotion in particular I think is the most valuable because this feature provides migrations of virtual machines in case you want to run do maintenance."
"It is easy to use."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"VMware has antivirus protection that covers the entire VM. If Microsoft could have something similar to this in Hyper-V, that would be great."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"They have multiple components required for the setup. It would be better to integrate it into one solution, especially for small business companies."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"In addition, I think some of the backup features or the prediction features can be improved."
"They need to stop pushing code out so fast."
"It is expensive."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
"I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could be improved."
"Get the HTML5 client to 100% parity to replace the Flash client."
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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