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.
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"It's a very manageable product."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"It's easy to use, and it is flexible."
"Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature."
"I like the standard features."
"I don't see any challenges in using this product."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its performance."
"It is easy to deploy and find troubleshooting articles as well."
"VMware vSphere has useful tools for management and support."
"VMotion is the biggest feature. It gives us the ability to move things on the fly."
"Storage via SMB3."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"Hyper-V isn't a lightweight solution like VMware. Management could be more straightforward. Even as far as disk management tools are concerned, it would be better if that could be made simpler. The same applies to performance."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"Technical support could be faster in terms of response times."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
"They need to stop pushing code out so fast."
"The biggest issue with stability is the SSO. That is still an issue as far as integrating it with Active Directory, and any large scale of it."
"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."
"Inability to get to a single hypervisor environment to support a container environment."
"Stability-wise, there are some minor issues."
"The way that vSphere manages the alerts on the data machine is not easy to configure."
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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