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.
"It is actually very low on resources. It doesn't use many resources. It is also very easy to tailor. You can change things like the amount of memory and storage on the fly. It is very stable and reliable. I like its replication feature, which is very good. It is also very easy to move the virtual machines across push servers without any difficulty. Its performance is also very good. Now with this pandemic, a lot of workers are working from home. A lot of workers have been using laptops as their desktop computers, and they would remote into a virtual PC. There is no difficulty, and they can't tell the difference between this and the real one. It is much easier to manage."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"I think the cluster environment is a good feature of Hyper-V because, if something happens, then it will automatically move to some other mode. This is a great feature of the solution."
"The interface is quite good."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere."
"The tool comes with scale-out capabilities. Deploying new infrastructure became much quicker, saving significant time previously spent sourcing hardware for each installation. It also has the ability to downscale on rack spaces, reducing the number of rack units needed to accommodate our servers."
"The VMware community is always there and it is a valuable resource."
"VMware is good for virtualization."
"It's easy to use."
"An easy way of providing near-zero downtime services, the operation of the instances between clustered services, and providing the projected SLA for our customers."
"VMware vSphere has plenty of features."
"The fact that vSphere is an on-premise solution is beneficial for the user. It's easier to manage the infrastructure. It's more straightforward to scale and configure virtual machines."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"The technical support could improve by being a little faster."
"They can lower the price of its license."
"The performance of the solution could be better and there could be an extra level of security."
"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."
"It is expensive. They can improve the licensing cost for Cloud Director. They can also improve the integration with other applications and the metering feature, which is currently not flexible."
"I would like to see VMware head towards a more GPU friendly environment."
"I would like them to move into having a containerized application to manage the vCenter."
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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