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.
"Live migration, SMB3."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"The flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"The most valuable feature is being able to do checkpoints then roll back to the checkpoint because that's what we need to test the software. We're testing the installation and then we roll it back and retest it."
"It is stable."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"Their command-line tools integrate well with other Microsoft products like PowerShell, so I can manipulate VMs using it."
"The most valuable features for us are HA, DRS, and SDRS."
"VMware vSphere has very good applications and services."
"The most valuable features are that it's stable, easy to use, and it's flexible."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the overall virtualization technology and the new features that allow you to move servers from one system to another."
"It is the number one virtualization-layer platform available, and a lot of people trust it."
"It helps us with TCO."
"It affords us different views of the VMs created by vSphere so we can control them better."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"The solution is heavily reliant on Microsoft's active directory for authentication, for coordination between nodes. Therefore, it inherits all the issues that are within the active directory."
"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."
"We have our scientific network, and it's run off the university sever, and we need two servers to optimize our scientific work, such as the mathematics work. Then you have to work with Python and Java, and Microsoft isn't the best option for this kind of work"
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V."
"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."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"The solution could improve by having more integration."
"When I use VMware and Citrix there are conflicts."
"There are occasionally bugs or errors."
"Here in Egypt, we would like everything free. So if you give us the license for free, we would be thrilled."
"Pricing is starting to get a little high-end."
"I would like to see VDP and other features included to back up the VMs in a native manner."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved."
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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