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 most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"It is an affordable platform."
"VMware vSphere helps us in not wasting resources like we did when we were using physical servers. It changed our whole environment."
"The enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need."
"I use customization to prevent any network and DNS collisions to the router."
"We scale it both vertically and hortizonally. We have many data centers on it."
"The built-in encryption of vSphere really helps us to secure our customers, especially customers in the medical field who need to be HIPAA compliant. Being able to encrypt the VM itself helps out a ton."
"Has many good features, and is stable and reliable."
"The solution is stable."
"We have removed the need for backups and going to the office at three in the morning to change a server. I do everything during my business hours. It gave me my life back."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
"There needs to be more integration overall. That would be quite helpful."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
"It would be nice to see it a little more tightly integrated with the patching solution so you could do it in one pane of glass. Right now, you have to jump back and forth. It's still not difficult, but you have to jump back and forth to do your update definitions and then go back and actually do the updates themselves."
"The challenge that we have is keeping the system up to date, as well as having the internal resources to maintain that platform. We're not an IT company, so it's challenging for us to keep the IT resources in-house."
"In future releases, I would like to see less pricing. The license can be improved."
"The support for the latest version could 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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