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 very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"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 performance is very good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"It's not a particular feature, really, however, I can say that the solution is just easy to maintain, and makes it easy to backup all those VMs. We can easily save our data and we can deploy VM machines very fast and create the delivery of the server in a pretty simple, dynamic way."
"Our customers opt for virtualization because it's cheaper and better than non-virtualized solutions. VMware is probably the best on the market now."
"I have found the Storage vMotion feature to be the most valuable."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"It helps us with TCO."
"The DRS feature of this solution is a very valuable feature."
"Vmware vSphere is the benchmark of the visualization market."
"Having a virtualized infrastructure and being able to bring up Windows, Linux, and VMware within a virtualized environment brings more technology into the classroom. Without it, we couldn't do what we do."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"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."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"I am using this solution with E-Notes. I heard that there will be future improvements in integration of the E-notes systems. This would be very helpful."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"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."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"Generally, the user interface needs to be improved for non-technical people."
"Stability and manageability need improvement."
"The support for the latest version could be improved."
"There are some limitations with the solution regarding migrating."
"Sometimes it's impossible to prevent problems from happening. With vSphere, you never know where the problem is going to come from, but you will always know that there is a problem. This is the problem."
"The one area where I would love to see an improvement is the HTML5 client. It's great, but it could get better."
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, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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