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 is stable."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"The installation was straightforward."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"The implementation process is simple."
"Hyper-V improved the infrastructure drastically, not only from a performance perspective but from a control/administration view as well."
"VMware vSphere has plenty of features."
"It's not a particular feature, really, however, I can say that the solution is just easy to maintain, and makes it easy to backup all those VMs. We can easily save our data and we can deploy VM machines very fast and create the delivery of the server in a pretty simple, dynamic way."
"The most useful features are ESXi, DRS, Auto Deploy, and the Lifecycle Manager."
"The most important feature is the ability to balance the servers with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). It is a very useful feature and should be mandatory for vSphere to have but it is only available in the enterprise edition. It should be available in all versions."
"The documentation is very good."
"Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem."
"The initial setup is very easy and takes half an hour to complete."
"The performance is efficient."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"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."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"The Web Client is too slow."
"There should be more stability in the updates. They had an issue with the last release."
"I'd like to see a little bit more integration for VDI. I think that Composer servers, security servers, broker servers with connections, I'm not sure they are necessary at this point. Perhaps they could have a lot of those functions baked directly into the hypervisor. It seems to me that if the hypervisor is scalable and flexible enough, that the processor and compute can handle all of that. Maybe we eliminate those other components for VDIs and have more mixed workloads: server workloads and desktop workloads all in the same hypervisor."
"The installation can take a long time, they need to improve on the simplicity and length of the installation."
"I would like to see VDP and other features included to back up the VMs in a native manner."
"The license fee could be more affordable."
"The initial setup could be better. It manages all the setups, but it's not very straightforward, and it takes time."
"The only improvement that is needed that come to mind are improvements in the vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations management simplicity."
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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