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 Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"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 most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"The flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"It's a very manageable product."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"I think all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"Very reliable with a great community."
"We use it for our VDI infrastructure and managing virtual machines."
"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."
"The solution has high availability."
"We've found the High Availability and flexibility to be important."
"It is fairly easy to use and has enhanced security."
"The built-in encryption of vSphere really helps us to secure our customers, especially customers in the medical field who need to be HIPAA compliant. Being able to encrypt the VM itself helps out a ton."
"Has many good features, and is stable and reliable."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"In general, based on my little experience with Hyper-V, I see a lot of obstacles. I think it falls behind the other competitors."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
"The technical support could improve by being a little faster."
"VMware vSphere could improve on the automation features and the ease of use of the solution in many areas, such as the interface. However, VMware is doing lots of great things."
"Sentencing has changed a lot."
"Without a lot of physical RAM on the hardware, it's not very effective. The stability could be improved in cases like this."
"Both the price and the licensing fee are expensive, especially for our clients with a smaller workload."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
"The solution should offer more integration capabilities."
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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