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 is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"Hyper-V deployment is very user-friendly. It supports partial scripting and offers a UI for a smooth experience. There's also PowerShell scripting available for advanced users."
"It is stable."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"VMware vSphere is user friendly. It is scalable and stable."
"Using vSphere we have virtualized over one thousand servers and this gave us management, cost and datacenter space advantages."
"It helps us with TCO."
"It is very versatile. All features are beneficial and very good, especially DRS and resource pooling."
"I don't see any challenges in using this product."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use, has high performance, and good virtualization."
"VMware is good for virtualization."
"I would like Microsoft to put more effort into the Admin Center interface and make it much easier. It is customizable, but you have to be a PowerShell expert to customize these things. That is a limitation."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Its cost needs to be improved. It is very expensive as compared to other solutions."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
"There are some challenges around ESXi hosts — converting them into VMs."
"The technical support is poor. We are in Australia, but we do not have the same level of support as the US and Europe."
"The way that vSphere manages the alerts on the data machine is not easy to configure."
"I would like to see more support regarding containers, and they need more features for them."
"The only way for it to be a complete product is if you integrate all the functionalities. Then you don't need any backup solution anymore and you can do it by yourself. Integration needs improvement. They should improve a lot of the functionality because normally it's half of a product. You're only protecting yourself against technical failures but not against any cyber threats or any other stuff."
"I would like to see a little bit more visibility regarding errors. When an error does occur, there are times where it says "Unknown error" or something to that effect, and it doesn't necessarily give you a lot of metrics. If you go online and you give a description of it, normally the VMware forums can help you find out what it is, but I'd like to see a little bit more visibility from the software itself regarding what's going on: "This went wrong, this is why.""
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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