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.
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"It is an affordable platform."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"It's a very manageable product."
"One of the most valuable features of Hyper-V is ease to use."
"The solution is highly stable."
"The main benefit of the version 6.7 is that it makes end-users able to use the interface much more effectively. They don't have to install a client on their machine, they can do it from their phone, their laptop, their tablet, any OS, anytime. It's a better experience for the end-user."
"The most valuable feature of vSphere is its modularity. I also like the maturity updates. It's available everywhere and almost all the data centers are using it."
"It's easy to use, and it is flexible."
"The easy of use with reduced space provides a better use of infrastructure"
"Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature."
"We've found the High Availability and flexibility to be important."
"I find that the Virtual Center Management, iSCSI support, and VMotion hot migration are very beneficial."
"The most valuable features are the vMotion, the storage vMotion, the DRS, and the high availability function."
"One of the network problems I face is I cannot introduce other security layers on top of Hyper-V as you can in VMware. When it comes to the network the VMware is more flexible than Hyper-V."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"I am using this solution with E-Notes. I heard that there will be future improvements in integration of the E-notes systems. This would be very helpful."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"It would be ideal if they could integrate billing software so that clients can customize it directly on the virtual machine."
"Its cost needs to be improved. It is very expensive as compared to other solutions."
"It could use a smaller learning curve."
"The HR proxy is actually a little bit tricky to install and setup."
"The license fee could be more affordable."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
"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."
"There needs to be more integration overall. That would be quite helpful."
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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