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 good for small installations."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"It is a stable product."
"Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"The most valuable features are the resilience of the solution and vMotion."
"Valuable features really depend on different projects. We are using the traditional infrastructure based on VMware vSphere. We are also using the high availability (HA) and Distributed Switch features to extend our network and switch between different hosts. The VMotion and SVMotion features are very essential for us to relocate the storage of virtual machines to different storage or vSANs. We are using VMotion and SVMotion features several times of the day. We are also using another VMware product to replicate a lot of solutions to a second replication site."
"Performance; We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"Valuable features include VHA, DRS, VMotion, and redundancy and failover; any DR situation."
"It's a very useful solution. It's easy to set up, and it's pretty stable."
"The virtualization, the remote management user interface, and the web console are most valuable."
"It's much more stable than other products. It is scalable and easy to implement as well."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to manage."
"I would love to see other options for connecting VMs to large data storage."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"The reporting could be improved."
"Generally, the user interface needs to be improved for non-technical people."
"As we continue to push mission-critical workloads into vSphere, and those workloads are not readily protected at the application layer for availability, continuing to increase the size limitations on FT-protected VMs would be a great advance."
"I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could be improved."
"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."
"Although vSphere is a nearly perfect product, it does need a little improvement. Datacenter and Cluster structure should be mixed so that the management of clusters would be easier."
"Customer support takes a long time to respond."
"VMware vSphere needs to increase the datastore volume."
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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