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 works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"It is easy to use."
"It is fairly easy to use and has enhanced security."
"The features in VMware vSphere data recovery are excellent. Sometimes I've deleted an entire server before and was able to recover the deleted VM. I just used some command line tools and I was able to restore the deleted VM."
"Stability and scalability are the most valuable features of this solution."
"This solution's most valuable feature is its High Availability."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSphere are backup and recovery."
"The scalability is good."
"As an end-user, I would say it has allowed us to have the flexibility of moving around our workloads on different machines, and not having to worry if anything is down."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"There's room for improvement in Hyper-V. One area I've personally encountered issues with is live migration. Sometimes during live migrations, the process gets stuck in a certain state. This can happen with replication as well. It's not necessarily a major problem, but at times, the error messages aren't very informative. They don't clearly explain why the migration failed."
"Storage via SMB3."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"Not having to buy something from a third-party to scan the actual hardware components, like the hard drives and the port containers and fan speeds; not having to bolt something on and go through another vendor, would be helpful."
"Response time could be improved."
"They need to further develop graphics virtualization."
"The documentation could be improved. It does not help me to show the client the value of going with VMware vSphere rather than an open source or cheaper solution."
"Sometimes it's impossible to prevent problems from happening. With vSphere, you never know where the problem is going to come from, but you will always know that there is a problem. This is the problem."
"The only way for it to be a complete product is if you integrate all the functionalities. Then you don't need any backup solution anymore and you can do it by yourself. Integration needs improvement. They should improve a lot of the functionality because normally it's half of a product. You're only protecting yourself against technical failures but not against any cyber threats or any other stuff."
"The solution could be cheaper and less expensive."
"The hardware cost is high."
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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