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 is the high availability of the solution."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"It's a stable product."
"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."
"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."
"Technical support is quite good and very responsive."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to manage."
"Visibility: We can easily pull reports and give access to other people to look at specs or performance metrics."
"An important vSphere feature from a security perspective is VM encryption. As is the right thing to do in this day and age, security needs to be the number one concern for any IT operator. While there are security solutions which can be delivered at the physical, hardware layer, they don't necessarily address all of the requirements from an encryption perspective. Being able to have VM-centric, VM-level encryption is a great feature of vSphere."
"I use the ESXi a lot for my users to create their own templates and control their own VMs without my interaction."
"The scalability has been good."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"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"
"One of the network problems I face is I cannot introduce other security layers on top of Hyper-V as you can in VMware. When it comes to the network the VMware is more flexible than Hyper-V."
"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."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"The cost can be better."
"The technical support is not too bad, but not the best."
"The solution is stable. It has some small bugs which are not influencing the main functions but every software has some bugs."
"A fully **automatic** and lightweight Virtual Center. Another time this has a huge improvement in last releases. However, a more automatic and simple deployment is required."
"The price could be better."
"Both the price and the licensing fee are expensive, especially for our clients with a smaller workload."
"It could improve the hyper-conversions."
"Generally, the user interface needs to be improved for non-technical people."
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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