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."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The most valuable features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"Vmware vSphere is the benchmark of the visualization market."
"This solution is very stable. It's scalable and simple to set up."
"It gives us the ability to be running over 250+ VMs on five physical hosts and in various flavours of guest OSs."
"The most valuable feature is vSAN, as it reduces the cost of SAN storage and maintenance."
"Also, the automated builds are being done through it, and we don't have to manually do it anymore. All of my AIS platforms are completely automated now with the VM suite."
"The documentation is very good."
"The most valuable features are that it's stable, easy to use, and it's flexible."
"I have found the solution to be flexible, and the vCenter and vMotion useful."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"In general, based on my little experience with Hyper-V, I see a lot of obstacles. I think it falls behind the other competitors."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"It would be great if VMware could have a consolidated way of delivering this as software rather than pieces and several add-ons so that you could enjoy the product in its entirety."
"I would like to see the configuration simplified."
"I would suggest that the tool reconsider its pricing strategy. The recent price hikes could potentially pose a problem for VMware in the future. The recent price increases, especially since Broadcom acquired them, seem excessive. There are reports of businesses experiencing massive price hikes, sometimes as much as 10-30 times higher. This is causing smaller businesses to consider exiting the space altogether."
"There should be more stability in the updates. They had an issue with the last release."
"An improvement could be allowing a "dark mode" for the interface. I think the HTML5 client is a little bit hard to read. It's all white. It's a little bit bright on the eyes. A lot of us IT guys view in the dark."
"The way that vSphere manages the alerts on the data machine is not easy to configure."
"Reporting on vCenter needs to be improved."
"They need to stop pushing code out so fast."
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.
See our list of best Server Virtualization Software vendors.
We monitor all Server Virtualization Software reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.