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.
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"The installation was straightforward."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"We don't have any downtime because it was built right."
"We use the solution's vMotion feature to migrate VMs from one host to another across different environments and data centers."
"The fact that we have the ability to easily scale out, and the ability to do maintenance on the underlying hardware without impacting our business applications, are important aspects."
"We've found the High Availability and flexibility to be important."
"being able to manage a lot of servers in one pane of glass makes things a lot simpler. Basically, a lot of things just happen in one area. You can roll things over, move things around more dynamically, without having to hit multiple systems."
"The ability to monitor resource utilization."
"Once you have everything configured, it is relatively straightforward."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"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."
"Storage via SMB3."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"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 to see DRS for the GPU machines."
"The solution could improve by having more integration."
"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."
"These days we have an environment where we are often using clouds as well. A solution that would be a little more cloud-aware would be really helpful. I know there is a product from VMware that is more specifically for the cloud, but it would be nice if VMware Cloud Manager would be cloud-aware. It would simplify certain processes."
"The biggest room for improvement would be just simplicity. It is very intuitive, but it needs somebody with a lot of IT background."
"It could improve the hyper-conversions."
"I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could be improved."
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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