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.
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"The implementation process is simple."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"The stability of the solution is excellent."
"Stable and secure management console for virtual environments, with a diligent technical support team."
"Technical support is quite good and very responsive."
"It is a very mature solution that is easy to use and flexible."
"being able to manage a lot of servers in one pane of glass makes things a lot simpler. Basically, a lot of things just happen in one area. You can roll things over, move things around more dynamically, without having to hit multiple systems."
"Its most valuable features are reliability, for sure, and quickness in getting the job done. I can spin off 100 or 200 machines in the matter of half an hour."
"It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs."
"The most useful features are ESXi, DRS, Auto Deploy, and the Lifecycle Manager."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"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."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"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."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"I would like to see VDP and other features included to back up the VMs in a native manner."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"There should be more stability in the updates. They had an issue with the last release."
"The technical support is not too bad, but not the best."
"There was a time we lost the password for the ESXi and we had to do a hardware reset. At this point, we had to fill up the ESXi from the bottom up. I am not sure if there was another solution to this problem but it took a long time."
"There are some challenges around ESXi hosts — converting them into VMs."
"Technical support is not that great. It is too slow."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved."
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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