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 is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"I think the cluster environment is a good feature of Hyper-V because, if something happens, then it will automatically move to some other mode. This is a great feature of the solution."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"Hyper-V deployment is very user-friendly. It supports partial scripting and offers a UI for a smooth experience. There's also PowerShell scripting available for advanced users."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"The installation was straightforward."
"I think all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"It is easy to use."
"It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs."
"It affords us different views of the VMs created by vSphere so we can control them better."
"VMware vSphere is a stable platform. We never had any issues with VMware vSphere. Once you deploy it with a stable version of the server or the hardware, there's no issue at all."
"It's extremely simple. Installing the ESXi is a piece of cake and then putting servers on there is really simple and having HA and building a cluster for our VM servers. It's very easy."
"We are able to create virtual machines and move them from one host to another, controlling the resources."
"The interface is good."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"The integration with containers should be addressed."
"The reporting could be improved."
"Reporting on vCenter needs to be improved."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"Without a lot of physical RAM on the hardware, it's not very effective. The stability could be improved in cases like this."
"Its performance is an issue in version 6.5, but with the inclusion of HTML files in vSphere version 6.7, the experience is seamless. In version 6.7, VMware has included the HTML file protocol for the web browser or web console, which has changed the console's response and improved the performance. We are using the trial version of vRealize Operations. It would be nice if some of those capabilities could be included in future versions of vSphere, not as a part of vRealize Operations, but in vSphere itself. It can provide some kind of forecast about your resource consumption based on the actual workload and modeling or testing scenarios. It can give you some advice or tips for the future growth of your infrastructure."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
"It would be good if the licensing cost of the solution could be cheaper."
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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