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 easy to configure."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"It's a very manageable product."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"The interface is quite good."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"Their command-line tools integrate well with other Microsoft products like PowerShell, so I can manipulate VMs using it."
"We have removed the need for backups and going to the office at three in the morning to change a server. I do everything during my business hours. It gave me my life back."
"It stands out as a comprehensive and advantageous solution, providing a full package that effectively caters to our needs for managing our private cloud."
"It's a very nice tool to be able to reduce your footprint, consolidate servers, and accumulate several servers in a high-density configuration."
"The ability to monitor resource utilization."
"Virtualised automation is a useful feature."
"The most valuable feature would be the slight changes they've made to VMFork instant cloning, in which they have abstracted out the parent-child relationship in cloning, in which certain features, like HA and DRS, are now usable on that parent virtual machine. That is wildly amazing and something that wasn't available until 6.7."
"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."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"There's room for improvement in Hyper-V. One area I've personally encountered issues with is live migration. Sometimes during live migrations, the process gets stuck in a certain state. This can happen with replication as well. It's not necessarily a major problem, but at times, the error messages aren't very informative. They don't clearly explain why the migration failed."
"We have our scientific network, and it's run off the university sever, and we need two servers to optimize our scientific work, such as the mathematics work. Then you have to work with Python and Java, and Microsoft isn't the best option for this kind of work"
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"I am using this solution with E-Notes. I heard that there will be future improvements in integration of the E-notes systems. This would be very helpful."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"We'd always like to see the price drop, but I realize that may not be realistic."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
"I would like to see DRS for the GPU machines."
"The price is a big issue for us because the market is very competitive in our country, so we can't really push our VMware vSphere products because the customers will prefer to use something cheaper."
"The biggest thing to improve is to have more self-service in the portals. I would like to receive more help through the web interface."
"In the next release, I would love to have Java as a service, platform as a service, and container as a service."
"Higher cost than other similar solutions."
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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