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 is much easier to deploy because Hyper-V is already installed inside Windows Server OS. You only need to turn on Hyper-V as a service, and then you can use it. The most convenient thing about Hyper-V is the operating system."
"It's a very manageable product."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"It is an affordable platform."
"With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable."
"Hyper-V deployment is very user-friendly. It supports partial scripting and offers a UI for a smooth experience. There's also PowerShell scripting available for advanced users."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"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."
"Its stability and manageability are valuable."
"It is very versatile. All features are beneficial and very good, especially DRS and resource pooling."
"The feature that I find very valuable is the ability to move images of virtual machines from different workspaces to other workspaces between different installations."
"The most valuable feature would be enhanced, what we call, Linked Mode to link our disaster recovery site to our primary site across different vCenters, without being required to be broken apart. Meaning, we have identity management and the actual vCenter servers split. We can actually do embedded now, thanks to vSphere 6.7."
"The performance is efficient."
"The stability of VMware vSphere is very good. It has high resiliency, it is one of the best solutions on the market."
"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."
"The solution can scale well."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"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."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"Monitoring information could always be improved."
"Sentencing has changed a lot."
"The licensing costs for the solution are quite high."
"We previously had a hard time using tech support."
"The integration with containers should be addressed."
"There needs to be more integration overall. That would be quite helpful."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
"vSphere itself is great when you don't need to make updates, but any time you have to touch it, unfortunately it's always the little bit of a fight to get it to do what you want."
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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