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 product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"The solution is very scalable."
"It is easy to use."
"I like stability and the organization of the different functions into the I#M feature which is also quite useful, quite stable."
"I have found the solution to be flexible, and the vCenter and vMotion useful."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"The product is very easy to install."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"It helps us with TCO."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"The backup site could be better. We used to face a lot of issues, and we are looking to solve that now. We are in the process of moving all the infrastructure to the cloud. It could also use more integration on the management part. We also need more integration on the monitoring sites."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"The Hyper-V management console could be improved to make it easier. It should be a little bit more granular. Various virtual switches could also be improved to make virtual desk management slightly better. The replication could be improved slightly. The checkpoints or snapshots could be improved to make it a bit more transparent to the user."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"In the next release, I would love to have Java as a service, platform as a service, and container as a service."
"The one area where I would love to see an improvement is the HTML5 client. It's great, but it could get better."
"Technical support could be faster in terms of response times."
"VMware vSphere could be more secure and well-known to everyone."
"The latest version of the solution has a few bugs."
"I would like to see the UI incorporating all of the functionality that the thick client had."
"The only improvement that is needed that come to mind are improvements in the vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations management simplicity."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
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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