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 makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"It's a very manageable product."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"Technical support was helpful and knowledgeable."
"vSphere brings the features required for an enterprise class system with a lot of supporting components: An intuitive user experience that simplifies and helps operational management."
"It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve."
"The installation process is very straightforward."
"Server consolidation. Getting rid of our physical servers and going virtual is saving us some money in overall rack space."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The scalability is good."
"Production people can quickly reboot the server with ESXi Quick Boot."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"Hyper-V serves its purpose, but some areas may not be as feature-rich as alternatives like VMware ESXi."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"I would like having something that works on a smaller screen, so we can get to it on our iPads and have it more touch-centric versus having to sit at a laptop."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"The price could be better. The licensing is definitely expensive and tech support is sometimes frustrating."
"VMware vSphere could be more secure and well-known to everyone."
"I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could be improved."
"I would like more Amazon stuff inside of VMware."
"They should improve their storage management part. vSphere has its own file system type, called VMSS, and that file system doesn't report on proper data usage or things like that. There are certain loopholes wherein it sometimes shows you erroneous data. Again, their VMSS file system, their data storage management system, and its reporting must be improved a lot."
"As we introduce the DevOps culture, we need to make sure that the principles and tools used to support this approach can be easily integrated and interoperated with the vSphere environment with no (or less) redundancy in tools and functionality."
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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