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 initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"The solution is highly stable."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"The fact that vSphere is an on-premise solution is beneficial for the user. It's easier to manage the infrastructure. It's more straightforward to scale and configure virtual machines."
"The main benefit of the version 6.7 is that it makes end-users able to use the interface much more effectively. They don't have to install a client on their machine, they can do it from their phone, their laptop, their tablet, any OS, anytime. It's a better experience for the end-user."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere."
"It is very easy to use and very stable."
"The scalability has been good."
"The documentation is very good."
"We are able to increase the density of the virtualized servers and, with the increased density we have a lot of page sharing as well as memory sharing."
"The virtualization, the remote management user interface, and the web console are most valuable."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"Hyper-V isn't a lightweight solution like VMware. Management could be more straightforward. Even as far as disk management tools are concerned, it would be better if that could be made simpler. The same applies to performance."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"I would like having something that works on a smaller screen, so we can get to it on our iPads and have it more touch-centric versus having to sit at a laptop."
"The support for the latest version could be improved."
"The latest version of the solution has a few bugs."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"The integration with containers should be addressed."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
"These days we have an environment where we are often using clouds as well. A solution that would be a little more cloud-aware would be really helpful. I know there is a product from VMware that is more specifically for the cloud, but it would be nice if VMware Cloud Manager would be cloud-aware. It would simplify certain processes."
"The biggest room for improvement would be just simplicity. It is very intuitive, but it needs somebody with a lot of IT background."
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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