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 allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"The solution is highly stable."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"vMotion is one of the most useful features, which helps to provide both flexibility and High Availability. With new versions of vSphere and vCenter, it is still improving (e.g., vMotion across vCenter Servers and virtual switches)."
"Technical support is very good. They are very helpful."
"I use customization to prevent any network and DNS collisions to the router."
"Most valuable features are quick provisioning, High Availability, and DRS for balancing workload."
"We are able to increase the density of the virtualized servers and, with the increased density we have a lot of page sharing as well as memory sharing."
"We could easily move workloads from on-premises to the cloud and vice versa if we were running on-premises and cloud, which is one of the most important points in the new releases, in particular."
"It's a very nice tool to be able to reduce your footprint, consolidate servers, and accumulate several servers in a high-density configuration."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"We have our scientific network, and it's run off the university sever, and we need two servers to optimize our scientific work, such as the mathematics work. Then you have to work with Python and Java, and Microsoft isn't the best option for this kind of work"
"The solution should be compatible with different systems."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"The installation is complex and you need to have a good understanding in regards to what you are doing when you are setting it up."
"The solution’s pricing is too high and could be improved."
"The solution is slower than other tools."
"I met with the lead solutions architect for vSphere, and one of the things that I really kind of sat him down on was, "What's the deal between these Custom Attributes and these Tags? What are you trying to do with that?" He said, "So here's the deal. I know that they're halfway done and we have a vision of where they're all going, but we'll get it there." That that would be a great ability, to keep all that metadata about your virtual machines inside the solution and staying with the machines."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"It could use a smaller learning curve."
"The VMware vSphere app is faster, compared to its web-based client. The web-based client is very slow, freezes, and is challenging to use."
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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