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 very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"The most valuable features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem."
"Since it is riding inside of a multi-hardware environment, downtime is virtually nothing."
"The features in VMware vSphere data recovery are excellent. Sometimes I've deleted an entire server before and was able to recover the deleted VM. I just used some command line tools and I was able to restore the deleted VM."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere."
"The solution is very scalable."
"VMware vSphere is a very stable product."
"VMware vSphere has a lot of features that are valuable, such as multiple clusters, VM mobility, VDI, and virtual desktop."
"As an end-user, I would say it has allowed us to have the flexibility of moving around our workloads on different machines, and not having to worry if anything is down."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"We have our scientific network, and it's run off the university sever, and we need two servers to optimize our scientific work, such as the mathematics work. Then you have to work with Python and Java, and Microsoft isn't the best option for this kind of work"
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"We stopped using a lot of cloud services. However, I see that VMware has integrated with Amazon Cloud. We will now to have to move everything to the cloud."
"Higher cost than other similar solutions."
"I would like to see improvements in simplifying automation, cloud native deployment, administration, and fault resolution."
"In terms of what could be improved, we do face some bugs when cloning the virtual machine - it fails sometimes."
"They have multiple components required for the setup. It would be better to integrate it into one solution, especially for small business companies."
"I'd like to see a little bit more integration for VDI. I think that Composer servers, security servers, broker servers with connections, I'm not sure they are necessary at this point. Perhaps they could have a lot of those functions baked directly into the hypervisor. It seems to me that if the hypervisor is scalable and flexible enough, that the processor and compute can handle all of that. Maybe we eliminate those other components for VDIs and have more mixed workloads: server workloads and desktop workloads all in the same hypervisor."
"On the older version of VMware vSphere, possibly version four, we had a feature that allowed us to backup Ziploc machines. It has not been available in the newer version such as six or seven. I have been looking for another solution to accomplish the backups but they should bring back this plugin-type tool to allow older backup capabilities."
"When I use VMware and Citrix there are conflicts."
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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