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 helps us build servers."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"In terms of overall features, vSphere's stability stands out on top. Not only is it highly stable, but we're also able to have a quick backup server on standby."
"I don't see any challenges in using this product."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"The initial setup is very easy and takes half an hour to complete."
"The most valuable features are the seamless HA with vMotion and being able to run vCenters in HA mode."
"We are able to increase the density of the virtualized servers and, with the increased density we have a lot of page sharing as well as memory sharing."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"vSphere does offer quite a bit of security stuff built-in. It is nice to know that we can have the virtual machines encrypted, so that if somebody were to get a hold of any of those files, we don't have to worry about them actually being used."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"Storage via SMB3."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"The solution’s pricing is too high and could be improved."
"There was a time we lost the password for the ESXi and we had to do a hardware reset. At this point, we had to fill up the ESXi from the bottom up. I am not sure if there was another solution to this problem but it took a long time."
"Sometimes it's impossible to prevent problems from happening. With vSphere, you never know where the problem is going to come from, but you will always know that there is a problem. This is the problem."
"Integration with different platforms could be improved."
"The ability to run ARM based VMs on an x86 platform for testing purposes. With the growing use of SBCs running on ARM architectures for IoT devices, it would be very useful if developers could build and deploy VMs running operating systems like Raspbian used on Raspberry Pi devices on their existing x86 ESXi environments. Even if this is not possible through some form of emulation, the ability to add ARM hypervisors to vSphere environments would be very useful. This will enable more rapid development cycles for customers just getting started with IoT but already existing vSphere users."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"They should make it more efficient and stable."
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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