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 makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"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."
"The flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"It is good for small installations."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"The solution is highly scalable."
"We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from one server to another."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"vMotion radically changes the way we think about how we can operate a large infrastructure, and notably, in terms of proactive maintenance."
"We have seen a tremendous performance boost. From when we started this VMware engagement in 2016 until now, we have seen around a 70 percent performance boost. This is a good number."
"We are able to increase the density of the virtualized servers and, with the increased density we have a lot of page sharing as well as memory sharing."
"As an end-user, I would say it has allowed us to have the flexibility of moving around our workloads on different machines, and not having to worry if anything is down."
"The latest innovation always comes from VMware."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"Its dynamic resource scheduling and its fault tolerance capabilities are two features that I've found to be valuable. I also like that VMware vSphere is stable, scalable, and easy to install."
"I use customization to prevent any network and DNS collisions to the router."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"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."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"We want to see improvement from VMware with security. We want minimal downtime. We want automation. We want to deploy more efficiently."
"If they improve on the knowledge base and documentation, it would be extremely helpful."
"They can maybe review its price. They can also consider offering a free public version for development for a certain number of users."
"There was a time we lost the password for the ESXi and we had to do a hardware reset. At this point, we had to fill up the ESXi from the bottom up. I am not sure if there was another solution to this problem but it took a long time."
"This solution should have a better backup policy. Furthermore, there should be an ability to expose the universal machine. In the current version, you need to shutdown and use an offline virtual machine to backup."
"I would like having something that works on a smaller screen, so we can get to it on our iPads and have it more touch-centric versus having to sit at a laptop."
"Both the price and the licensing fee are expensive, especially for our clients with a smaller workload."
"VMware has amped up how frequently they release new versions and that adds instability to a stable environment."
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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