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 replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"The solution is stable."
"The implementation process is simple."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"The virtualization this solution offer is very complete for the infrastructure."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"It's easy to use and very user-friendly."
"Has many good features, and is stable and reliable."
"The ability to monitor resource utilization."
"The ability to to virtualize systems and run those virtual workloads with a fewer number of servers is tremendous."
"VMware vSphere has helped us create our infrastructures and provide services for our customers."
"You don't need too many people to manage the solution once it's up and running."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"Hyper-V isn't a lightweight solution like VMware. Management could be more straightforward. Even as far as disk management tools are concerned, it would be better if that could be made simpler. The same applies to performance."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"One of the network problems I face is I cannot introduce other security layers on top of Hyper-V as you can in VMware. When it comes to the network the VMware is more flexible than Hyper-V."
"Although vSphere is a nearly perfect product, it does need a little improvement. Datacenter and Cluster structure should be mixed so that the management of clusters would be easier."
"In future releases, I would like to see less pricing. The license can be improved."
"The management could be simplified for base-level customers, but of course, it would be difficult to match all customer needs."
"There needs to be more integration overall. That would be quite helpful."
"I would like to see the UI incorporating all of the functionality that the thick client had."
"The technical support could improve by being a little faster."
"It is not easy to upgrade VMware vSphere from an old version to a new version."
"When we talk about the overall private cloud stack, I would prefer for it be a lot more seamless."
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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