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."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"The solution has good scalability."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"Its DR facility is good. Within a moment, data can be retrieve from another physical location over the Internet. The speed to recover data is good."
"Its stability and manageability are valuable."
"Technical support is very good. They are very helpful."
"vSphere has enabled an enterprise class virtualization environment with a central point of monitoring and management stretched over multiple datacenters (multi-site use), adding all the features of clustering for high-availability and failover, VM migration, and operations."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"VMware vSphere has very good applications and services."
"The redundancy, the failover, the ability to stay up and running 24/7, all the various tools that are in there, high-availability, DRS, are very critical to us."
"It is fairly easy to use and has enhanced security."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"VMware has antivirus protection that covers the entire VM. If Microsoft could have something similar to this in Hyper-V, that would be great."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"The web user interface can be a bit clunky from time to time, so there may be some room for improvement in that regard."
"The licensing costs are expensive and most of the important features require a license."
"The technical support could improve by being a little faster."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
"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."
"Pricing is starting to get a little high-end."
"I would like to see more support regarding containers, and they need more features for them."
"As we introduce the DevOps culture, we need to make sure that the principles and tools used to support this approach can be easily integrated and interoperated with the vSphere environment with no (or less) redundancy in tools and functionality."
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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