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."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"I like that Hyper-V comes for free with Windows Server. You don't need to buy the license, and you only have to pay for the management aspect in System Center."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"I think all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"The most valuable feature would be the slight changes they've made to VMFork instant cloning, in which they have abstracted out the parent-child relationship in cloning, in which certain features, like HA and DRS, are now usable on that parent virtual machine. That is wildly amazing and something that wasn't available until 6.7."
"The virtualization, the remote management user interface, and the web console are most valuable."
"It is easy to deploy and find troubleshooting articles as well."
"We could easily move workloads from on-premises to the cloud and vice versa if we were running on-premises and cloud, which is one of the most important points in the new releases, in particular."
"The most valuable features are the resilience of the solution and vMotion."
"What I like about it is being able to see my entire organization, especially with some of the newer enhanced links. All of my data centers show up in one view and I can see every server that's running. I also get performance statistics so if there are issues, major problems going on, I can see them."
"The solution is also very simple and efficient to manage. Features that have made it simple and easy to manage include the newer VAMI for the V-center appliance, it's very easy to see what version we are at, and very easy to upgrade to the next version. The fact that we can now use VCHA at the appliance level just decreases our chance of having an outage because so many of our customers rely on the API interface for V-center."
"The interface is good."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"In general, based on my little experience with Hyper-V, I see a lot of obstacles. I think it falls behind the other competitors."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"I would like to see VMware vSphere provide a centralized patch service on the VMware level, regardless of your operating systems."
"There is definitely room for improvement and that improvement should be in the licensing and the simplicity of procuring additional licenses or additional VMware products. Right now, it's very complex."
"They can lower the price of its license."
"I would like to see the configuration simplified."
"It would be great if VMware could have a consolidated way of delivering this as software rather than pieces and several add-ons so that you could enjoy the product in its entirety."
"There should be more stability in the updates. They had an issue with the last release."
"Two improvements that I would like to see are higher resolution console modes for guests and easier switching between consoles."
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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