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.
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"It is stable."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"The solution has good scalability."
"Hyper-V can expand storage. For instance, if I have a VM running on NetApp or another platform, I can expand the storage without interrupting operations. It is useful when I need to quickly allocate more storage without causing downtime or performing maintenance tasks."
"Hyper-V is much easier to deploy because Hyper-V is already installed inside Windows Server OS. You only need to turn on Hyper-V as a service, and then you can use it. The most convenient thing about Hyper-V is the operating system."
"The documentation is very good."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"VMware is good for virtualization."
"Basic hypervisor functions with HA."
"The solution is stable."
"vSphere brings the features required for an enterprise class system with a lot of supporting components: An intuitive user experience that simplifies and helps operational management."
"It's very transparent and independent."
"The most valuable feature would be enhanced, what we call, Linked Mode to link our disaster recovery site to our primary site across different vCenters, without being required to be broken apart. Meaning, we have identity management and the actual vCenter servers split. We can actually do embedded now, thanks to vSphere 6.7."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"In an upcoming release, they can improve by having better cloud integration. We are all moving towards the clouds and the integration is only through the Azure Stack, there should be tools built in to move the VMs natively to the cloud and infrastructure. Additionally, they could provide some form of multi-cloud integration."
"It could improve the hyper-conversions."
"VMware has amped up how frequently they release new versions and that adds instability to a stable environment."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"There are some challenges around ESXi hosts — converting them into VMs."
"The technical support is good. However, it could be more seamless when it comes to chat support and lower response times."
"I'm using vSphere at a high level. Sometimes, I find it challenging to integrate different networks, but I think it's just my lack of knowledge."
"I would like to see more software as a service solutions."
"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."
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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