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 simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable."
"The installation was straightforward."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"The most valuable features are stability and support."
"VMware vSphere has a lot of features that are valuable, such as multiple clusters, VM mobility, VDI, and virtual desktop."
"The DRS feature of this solution is a very valuable feature."
"The GUI is very simple to use."
"VMware vSphere is a stable platform. We never had any issues with VMware vSphere. Once you deploy it with a stable version of the server or the hardware, there's no issue at all."
"Basic hypervisor functions with HA."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"We have the possibility to move workloads to different locations."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"In addition, I think they should come up with a backup feature which is more product enrichment-based. It should be a full-fledged backup solution. It just is not there right now."
"They must work on the price, as well as the technical support."
"We have had some problems setting up the monitoring with vSphere. The process could be simplified."
"If they improve on the knowledge base and documentation, it would be extremely helpful."
"The pipeline feature can be improved, as it doesn't allow for specific situations."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
"In terms of what could be improved, we do face some bugs when cloning the virtual machine - it fails sometimes."
"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."
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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