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 allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"One of the most valuable features of Hyper-V is ease to use."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"Cross vendor integration is in my opinion one of the best features."
"The product offers good stability."
"The GUI is very simple to use."
"Provides good backup to our servers."
"Its most valuable features are reliability, for sure, and quickness in getting the job done. I can spin off 100 or 200 machines in the matter of half an hour."
"It's extremely simple. Installing the ESXi is a piece of cake and then putting servers on there is really simple and having HA and building a cluster for our VM servers. It's very easy."
"We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSphere are backup and recovery."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"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."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"Here in Egypt, we would like everything free. So if you give us the license for free, we would be thrilled."
"An improvement could be allowing a "dark mode" for the interface. I think the HTML5 client is a little bit hard to read. It's all white. It's a little bit bright on the eyes. A lot of us IT guys view in the dark."
"It would be highly beneficial for VMware to collaborate with local hosts and partners in countries like those in Africa to establish specific pricing that would align with the economic conditions of countries in Africa, ensuring suitability and compatibility with our consumption capabilities."
"On Vista, there should be a lot more new features. We would like to see more security features to harden our environment in the future."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved."
"I would like to see VMware head towards a more GPU friendly environment."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"There should be more stability in the updates. They had an issue with the last release."
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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