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 most valuable feature is being able to do checkpoints then roll back to the checkpoint because that's what we need to test the software. We're testing the installation and then we roll it back and retest it."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"The solution is stable."
"It is an affordable platform."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"The solution has many valuable features. Virtualization is flexible and it has simple clustering. However, the most important feature is the ability to move between VMs. The vMotion features are very good."
"VMware Tanzu (container) is the most valuable addition because you get an efficient solution to manage the VM and container in a single pane of glass."
"One of the things I like with the web client, versus the thick client, is that we're able to access all the vCenters that we manage. With the thick client, you have to log in to one vCenter at a time."
"The stability of VMware vSphere is very good. It has high resiliency, it is one of the best solutions on the market."
"We scale it both vertically and hortizonally. We have many data centers on it."
"The most valuable feature is the VDP Backup solution."
"The vMotion in particular I think is the most valuable because this feature provides migrations of virtual machines in case you want to run do maintenance."
"The solution is user-friendly. It is easy to convert, create, and manage systems."
"When it comes to Hyper-V the worst thing is it's based on the Windows operating system. For the installation of Hyper-V, you're supposed to install the right operating system. For me, it's strange."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"I would like more Amazon stuff inside of VMware."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"The support for the latest version could be improved."
"They can maybe review its price. They can also consider offering a free public version for development for a certain number of users."
"I would like to see a little bit more visibility regarding errors. When an error does occur, there are times where it says "Unknown error" or something to that effect, and it doesn't necessarily give you a lot of metrics. If you go online and you give a description of it, normally the VMware forums can help you find out what it is, but I'd like to see a little bit more visibility from the software itself regarding what's going on: "This went wrong, this is why.""
"Reducing the cost of vSphere would be an improvement."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
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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