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.
"I like that it's easy to use."
"The solution is highly stable."
"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."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"The tool provides 99.99% uptime."
"VMware vSphere helps us in not wasting resources like we did when we were using physical servers. It changed our whole environment."
"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."
"The scalability of the solution is good. You can scale up to maximum levels."
"There are no issues with the level of scalability you can achieve."
"The product is very easy to install."
"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."
"We could easily move workloads from on-premises to the cloud and vice versa if we were running on-premises and cloud, which is one of the most important points in the new releases, in particular."
"I would love to see other options for connecting VMs to large data storage."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"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."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"The HTML 5 client has always lagged behind."
"The initial setup could be better. It manages all the setups, but it's not very straightforward, and it takes time."
"To manage it properly, you have to know this product really well."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"The management of the product demonstration is weak."
"Its price should be better. Their support should also be more customer-friendly, and they should train people like us so that we know more about the latest technologies and features. If there is some program and drive from their side to teach us, it is definitely going to help us. Pricing and support are the most important features for mid-level companies. We are not implementing this solution for big tech companies."
"The only concern that I have with VMware is the support. It is very limited and can be better."
"This solution should have a better backup policy. Furthermore, there should be an ability to expose the universal machine. In the current version, you need to shutdown and use an offline virtual machine to backup."
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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