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 virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"The flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"It is an affordable platform."
"You don't need too many people to manage the solution once it's up and running."
"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."
"This solution is very stable. It's scalable and simple to set up."
"The stability of the solution is excellent."
"The GUI is very simple to use."
"It is very easy to use and very stable."
"The most useful features are ESXi, DRS, Auto Deploy, and the Lifecycle Manager."
"The ability of a running VM to be quickly relocated to another hypervisor or launched at another site via replicated storage greatly reduces downtime."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"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."
"When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"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."
"Hyper-V is hosted on OS but if your OS scratches you are in big trouble. In addition, if a host fails, automatically the machine and the virtual machine should boot from another source. Those type of features would benefit Hyper-V."
"We need to improve availability and disaster recovery in VMware vSphere."
"In addition, I think they should come up with a backup feature which is more product enrichment-based. It should be a full-fledged backup solution. It just is not there right now."
"Inability to get to a single hypervisor environment to support a container environment."
"I would like them to move into having a containerized application to manage the vCenter."
"There is room for improvement in Google Cloud. The reason thing there was, like, when I type something in the terminal and then immediately, I need to go to edit the certain like file for Node.js, for the server, or for Kubernetes. So I have to do it from the terminal to the editor."
"We've been using vSphere on Windows 7, and it had less fluff associated with ThinApp. Currently, with Windows 10 version that we have, it adds a lot of bulk to ThinApp. We have offices spanning across Canada from the east coast to the west coast. A ThinApp that is roughly around 400 MB in size would take minutes to open up. With Windows 7, the same ThinApp used to be close to 75 to 80 MB in size. So, I'm really not happy with the extra fluff that is bundled in Windows 10. It really messes things up for us at times."
"The initial setup could be better. It manages all the setups, but it's not very straightforward, and it takes time."
"I would like to see VMware vSphere provide a centralized patch service on the VMware level, regardless of your operating systems."
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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