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 has good scalability."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"The solution is stable."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"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."
"VMware vSphere helps us in not wasting resources like we did when we were using physical servers. It changed our whole environment."
"Technical support is very good. They are very helpful."
"I like stability and the organization of the different functions into the I#M feature which is also quite useful, quite stable."
"I like the capability of vMotion, DRS, high availability, and resource distribution."
"The virtualization this solution offer is very complete for the infrastructure."
"The performance of VMware vSphere is good."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization and the performance on the virtualization platform."
"Virtualised automation is a useful feature."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"Hyper-V's management platform falls short in terms of scalability, especially when handling multiple Hyper-V servers. VMware has a central console to pull in all your VM servers, so you can easily manage them all through one console. You can manage servers in Hyper-V's admin centers, but it's not as scalable. It's doable with a couple of Hyper-V servers, but it becomes harder to manage when you get over two or three Hyper-V servers."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"A fully **automatic** and lightweight Virtual Center. Another time this has a huge improvement in last releases. However, a more automatic and simple deployment is required."
"There is still room for improvement with the HTML5 Web Client. They are working on it, as I can see on their blog. However, there is still room for improvement in the newer features that they can push into it."
"Technical support is not that great. It is too slow."
"VMware vSphere is perfect for the on-premise solution, but we are in the cloud era, so I think maybe VMware needs to invest more in the cloud and the microservice chain. It would be better if VMware offered more cloud solutions and continuous applications."
"The solution is slower than other tools."
"There are some challenges around ESXi hosts — converting them into VMs."
"VMware vSphere does not permit hard partitioning."
"Generally, the user interface needs to be improved for non-technical people."
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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