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 setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"The flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"The implementation process is simple."
"We have seen an improvement in uptime. The whole hardware lifecycle process is easier."
"The most valuable feature of vSphere is its modularity. I also like the maturity updates. It's available everywhere and almost all the data centers are using it."
"VMware vSphere is user-friendly and simple."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vMotion."
"It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs."
"The most valuable features are the resilience of the solution and vMotion."
"I like the capability of logging into one system, then being able to shift over to another system within that single pane of glass."
"The solution is also very simple and efficient to manage. Features that have made it simple and easy to manage include the newer VAMI for the V-center appliance, it's very easy to see what version we are at, and very easy to upgrade to the next version. The fact that we can now use VCHA at the appliance level just decreases our chance of having an outage because so many of our customers rely on the API interface for V-center."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"The only negative thing I heard was that the baseline price is very, very attractive relative to VMware, however, the vCenter counterpart, the thing that brings it all together, is quite pricey."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"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."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"The solution is heavily reliant on Microsoft's active directory for authentication, for coordination between nodes. Therefore, it inherits all the issues that are within the active directory."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"The setup is easy. However, the configuration expansion can be difficult. The full implementation took three to four days. This included the move from physical servers to virtual ones."
"Security and patch-related items need improvement."
"The solution could be cheaper and less expensive."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
"We have had some problems setting up the monitoring with vSphere. The process could be simplified."
"An area for improvement is that when comparing VMware to Nutanix, Nutanix has higher availability, like clustering for virtual machines. That is a good idea and VMware could profit from something like that for higher availability installations."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"Not having to buy something from a third-party to scan the actual hardware components, like the hard drives and the port containers and fan speeds; not having to bolt something on and go through another vendor, would be helpful."
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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