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 is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"Production people can quickly reboot the server with ESXi Quick Boot."
"Ease-of-Use; The solution is very simple to use and to manage. Updates are simple. The biggest feature that enables the ease of use is the fact that you can update via the web interface. With a couple of clicks, the update is done; no manual intervention, you just click Update and it automatically reboots the server for you and you're back up and going again."
"It has high clustering and availability features. These features are not found with other hypervisors."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"vSphere has enabled an enterprise class virtualization environment with a central point of monitoring and management stretched over multiple datacenters (multi-site use), adding all the features of clustering for high-availability and failover, VM migration, and operations."
"It gives us the ability to be running over 250+ VMs on five physical hosts and in various flavours of guest OSs."
"Stable and secure management console for virtual environments, with a diligent technical support team."
"Very reliable with a great community."
"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."
"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."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"Hyper-V serves its purpose, but some areas may not be as feature-rich as alternatives like VMware ESXi."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"Security and patch-related items need improvement."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"The technical support is not too bad, but not the best."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
"From my point of view, my advice is to design the solution properly the first time."
"The UI of VMware could use some improvements, especially in dark mode."
"The solution is stable. However, it could improve by being more secure."
"When we talk about the overall private cloud stack, I would prefer for it be a lot more seamless."
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, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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