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.
"It helps us build servers."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"Hyper-V can expand storage. For instance, if I have a VM running on NetApp or another platform, I can expand the storage without interrupting operations. It is useful when I need to quickly allocate more storage without causing downtime or performing maintenance tasks."
"It's a very manageable product."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"Overall, it is a pretty good solution. We do not have to worry about upgrading the versions that people use for our in-house software. We just create ThinApps, and as soon as they log in, they always get the upgraded version. This part really works well for us."
"VMware vSphere has helped us create our infrastructures and provide services for our customers."
"We find the solution simple and efficient to manage."
"The solution is very straightforward to implement."
"VMware vSphere has very good applications and services."
"The VMware community is always there and it is a valuable resource."
"VMware vSphere is user-friendly and simple."
"VMotion is the biggest feature. It gives us the ability to move things on the fly."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"VMware has antivirus protection that covers the entire VM. If Microsoft could have something similar to this in Hyper-V, that would be great."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"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."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"In terms of what could be improved, we do face some bugs when cloning the virtual machine - it fails sometimes."
"Support for the product is not good enough."
"Both the price and the licensing fee are expensive, especially for our clients with a smaller workload."
"In the next release, I would like to see programming. I'd like to see a lot more about customization for people who want to customize programming API, SDK."
"The HTML 5 client has always lagged behind."
"I would like to see more support regarding containers, and they need more features for them."
"OS templates should be readily available, so there is no need to get an OS separately. Only the activation part should be different, which is not presently available due to the need to get the OS from a different location, then create VMs."
"Generally, the user interface needs to be improved for non-technical people."
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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