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.
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It's a stable product."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"Its stability and manageability are valuable."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"Basic hypervisor functions with HA."
"Stability and scalability are the most valuable features of this solution."
"vSphere does offer quite a bit of security stuff built-in. It is nice to know that we can have the virtual machines encrypted, so that if somebody were to get a hold of any of those files, we don't have to worry about them actually being used."
"The solution saves cost."
"Ease of support is one of the main features that we have with it. We're able to take Snapshots before doing updates to make it easy to roll back if something does happen to go wrong."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the overall virtualization technology and the new features that allow you to move servers from one system to another."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"Storage via SMB3."
"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."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"Its cost needs to be improved. It is very expensive as compared to other solutions."
"The quality of support could be better."
"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."
"There are occasionally bugs or errors."
"They can maybe review its price. They can also consider offering a free public version for development for a certain number of users."
"It is expensive. They can improve the licensing cost for Cloud Director. They can also improve the integration with other applications and the metering feature, which is currently not flexible."
"It would be nice to see it a little more tightly integrated with the patching solution so you could do it in one pane of glass. Right now, you have to jump back and forth. It's still not difficult, but you have to jump back and forth to do your update definitions and then go back and actually do the updates themselves."
"The management could be simplified for base-level customers, but of course, it would be difficult to match all customer needs."
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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