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 solution has good scalability."
"I like the functionality."
"The interface is quite good."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"It's a very useful solution. It's easy to set up, and it's pretty stable."
"We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"Using vSphere we have virtualized over one thousand servers and this gave us management, cost and datacenter space advantages."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"The most valuable feature is being able to VMotion and migrate easily, moving machines around on the host. I know DRS will take care of a lot about that, but there's still some manual intervention here and there, so the flexibility of it has been really good."
"The solution is user-friendly. It is easy to convert, create, and manage systems."
"Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature."
"It is a powerful solution that enables us to take a snapshot and clone any version of machine."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"In an upcoming release, they can improve by having better cloud integration. We are all moving towards the clouds and the integration is only through the Azure Stack, there should be tools built in to move the VMs natively to the cloud and infrastructure. Additionally, they could provide some form of multi-cloud integration."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"The documentation could be improved. It does not help me to show the client the value of going with VMware vSphere rather than an open source or cheaper solution."
"They should make it more efficient and stable."
"It is expensive. They can improve the licensing cost for Cloud Director. They can also improve the integration with other applications and the metering feature, which is currently not flexible."
"My biggest suggestion would be some kind of a mechanism - and it's almost an AI-type thing, a Siri/Cortana - for where to find how to do certain things. If there was the ability to just type in a basic question and say, "How do I change the VM settings for this?" and it could bring me right there, that would be really awesome."
"Given that I've been using version seven, it seems that some of the bugs I faced during that version have already been addressed in subsequent updates. Although I haven't personally tested them yet, it appears that these issues have been resolved. In version seven, there was a problem with the network interface not responding due to certain configurations not being properly filtered. However, in version eight, this requirement has been minimized, so the mentioned bug is less likely to occur. Instead of solely addressing these fixes in newer versions, it might be beneficial for them to consider applying these improvements to the older versions as well. This approach could prevent users from feeling compelled to upgrade to version eight solely to avoid encountering the issue, and instead provide updates for version seven users."
"I would like them to move into having a containerized application to manage the vCenter."
"If they improve on the knowledge base and documentation, it would be extremely helpful."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". 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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