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 think the cluster environment is a good feature of Hyper-V because, if something happens, then it will automatically move to some other mode. This is a great feature of the solution."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"It is good for small installations."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of vSphere is its modularity. I also like the maturity updates. It's available everywhere and almost all the data centers are using it."
"Our customers opt for virtualization because it's cheaper and better than non-virtualized solutions. VMware is probably the best on the market now."
"The connectivity is fantastic, and many functions can run together in one server. If you need to scale, we can continue to add components or modules. It's a beautiful virtual solution that has many advantages over physical hardware, where you have to use devices and wiring to connect all your projects."
"VMware vSphere is a very stable product."
"The ability to monitor resource utilization."
"It makes managing your virtual servers easier and more centralized."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSphere are backup and recovery."
"You see more responsiveness, especially now with having the HTML5 client. It feels like a much snappier product."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"There should be a bit more flexibility in terms of the hardware we can use with the product."
"The biggest issue with stability is the SSO. That is still an issue as far as integrating it with Active Directory, and any large scale of it."
"I would like to see the configuration simplified."
"Two improvements that I would like to see are higher resolution console modes for guests and easier switching between consoles."
"The HR proxy is actually a little bit tricky to install and setup."
"There are occasionally bugs or errors."
"They must work on the price, as well as the technical support."
"I would like to see AI in future releases."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". 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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