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 simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"The restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"The ease of movement of these machines is the most valuable. It is very easy to move these machines between physical hosts. The fast deployment of services is another valuable feature."
"I use customization to prevent any network and DNS collisions to the router."
"It is highly scalable. We need to scale out and up, and we can do that with vSphere. We can easily add more storage, drives, or memory."
"We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"This solution is very stable. It's scalable and simple to set up."
"VMware vSphere is user-friendly and simple."
"Production people can quickly reboot the server with ESXi Quick Boot."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"It would be nice if it was turned into its own product because that's the problem with it. It doesn't have a single place where you can manage things. You have to go into all different screens to be able to configure it. And then you have no idea what the performance is. It's really just a feature added to Windows, and Microsoft does not really have anything that pulls it all together well. Compared to VMware, it does not have everything collaborate on one screen."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"Storage via SMB3."
"The only negative thing I heard was that the baseline price is very, very attractive relative to VMware, however, the vCenter counterpart, the thing that brings it all together, is quite pricey."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
"It is expensive."
"It needs to integrate better between multiple modules."
"It would be nice to see it a little more tightly integrated with the patching solution so you could do it in one pane of glass. Right now, you have to jump back and forth. It's still not difficult, but you have to jump back and forth to do your update definitions and then go back and actually do the updates themselves."
"I would like to see better fault and performance reporting in the GUI."
"We are provided with a mini dashboard that has been improved in the latest version but it still could be better. The monitoring is now available on the vCenter dashboard and the vROps has been added to the basic version that had to be purchased separately before. A complete dashboard has always been provided with some competitors, such as Nutanix."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"I would like to see DRS for the GPU machines."
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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