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."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"The setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs."
"Its DR facility is good. Within a moment, data can be retrieve from another physical location over the Internet. The speed to recover data is good."
"The UI is very intuitive, you don't have to spend hours before you figure it out. All in all, compared to other environments, like Hyper-V, we find vSphere a lot more user-friendly and intuitive to use."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the overall good ease of use and the good interface which makes it very easy to migrate from one bare metal to another. These are the two things which I like about it."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Also, the automated builds are being done through it, and we don't have to manually do it anymore. All of my AIS platforms are completely automated now with the VM suite."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to manage."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
"The biggest issue with stability is the SSO. That is still an issue as far as integrating it with Active Directory, and any large scale of it."
"They should improve their storage management part. vSphere has its own file system type, called VMSS, and that file system doesn't report on proper data usage or things like that. There are certain loopholes wherein it sometimes shows you erroneous data. Again, their VMSS file system, their data storage management system, and its reporting must be improved a lot."
"The performance of the solution could be better and there could be an extra level of security."
"They have multiple components required for the setup. It would be better to integrate it into one solution, especially for small business companies."
"It would be ideal if they could integrate billing software so that clients can customize it directly on the virtual machine."
"I’d like to see a better web console or rather, transform the web console in a real single pane of glass for the whole infrastructure instead of having to go for vRealize Ops Manager."
"Reporting on vCenter needs to be improved."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". 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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