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 replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"The solution has good scalability."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"The installation was straightforward."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"Has many good features, and is stable and reliable."
"It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs."
"Security-Features; vSphere does offer quite a bit of security stuff built-in. It is nice to know that we can have the virtual machines encrypted, so that if somebody were to get a hold of any of those files, we don't have to worry about them actually being used. Since we do have so many different departments and areas with a lot of people that need access into the solution, we can use the role-based access controls to really restrict and control who can do what, so everybody can do what they need to do, but they can't do anything else past that."
"Ease of support is one of the main features that we have with it. We're able to take Snapshots before doing updates to make it easy to roll back if something does happen to go wrong."
"VMware vSphere is a very stable product."
"The tool comes with scale-out capabilities. Deploying new infrastructure became much quicker, saving significant time previously spent sourcing hardware for each installation. It also has the ability to downscale on rack spaces, reducing the number of rack units needed to accommodate our servers."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"Stability and scalability are the most valuable features of this solution."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"When it comes to Hyper-V the worst thing is it's based on the Windows operating system. For the installation of Hyper-V, you're supposed to install the right operating system. For me, it's strange."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"The documentation could be improved. It does not help me to show the client the value of going with VMware vSphere rather than an open source or cheaper solution."
"We have had some problems setting up the monitoring with vSphere. The process could be simplified."
"They have multiple components required for the setup. It would be better to integrate it into one solution, especially for small business companies."
"The price could be better. The licensing is definitely expensive and tech support is sometimes frustrating."
"I would like to see a more automated upgrade, where you take the other products into account, so you can upgrade the entire VMware stack from a single interface."
"vSphere could perhaps be improved by more integration or better security."
"The Web Client is too slow."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
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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