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 allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vMotion."
"One of the most valuable features that vSphere has is its HA and DRS protection, where it can simply make sure that all the machines are always where they need to be and how they need to be taken care of. We have a lot of servers and services for emergency services for police, fire, and the like. We have the ability to use DRS as Anti-Affinity Rules to make sure that those redundant server pairs always stay away from each other. But then, if anything would happen to one of them, we have HA to be able to come up and bring it right up and going again."
"We have seen an improvement in uptime. The whole hardware lifecycle process is easier."
"Its most valuable features are reliability, for sure, and quickness in getting the job done. I can spin off 100 or 200 machines in the matter of half an hour."
"The roadmap for the product itself covers all of the features that we are looking for."
"The fact that we have the ability to easily scale out, and the ability to do maintenance on the underlying hardware without impacting our business applications, are important aspects."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSphere is the ability to work in a big system infrastructure."
"It is fairly easy to use and has enhanced security."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Pricing is starting to get a little high-end."
"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 integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"When I use VMware and Citrix there are conflicts."
"An area for improvement is that when comparing VMware to Nutanix, Nutanix has higher availability, like clustering for virtual machines. That is a good idea and VMware could profit from something like that for higher availability installations."
"It would be great if VMware could have a consolidated way of delivering this as software rather than pieces and several add-ons so that you could enjoy the product in its entirety."
"The management of the product demonstration is weak."
"The biggest thing to improve is to have more self-service in the portals. I would like to receive more help through the web interface."
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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