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 most valuable features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"It's a stable product."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"It's a very manageable product."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"It's extremely simple. Installing the ESXi is a piece of cake and then putting servers on there is really simple and having HA and building a cluster for our VM servers. It's very easy."
"It affords us different views of the VMs created by vSphere so we can control them better."
"vSphere does offer quite a bit of security stuff built-in. It is nice to know that we can have the virtual machines encrypted, so that if somebody were to get a hold of any of those files, we don't have to worry about them actually being used."
"Valuable features really depend on different projects. We are using the traditional infrastructure based on VMware vSphere. We are also using the high availability (HA) and Distributed Switch features to extend our network and switch between different hosts. The VMotion and SVMotion features are very essential for us to relocate the storage of virtual machines to different storage or vSANs. We are using VMotion and SVMotion features several times of the day. We are also using another VMware product to replicate a lot of solutions to a second replication site."
"Valuable features include VHA, DRS, VMotion, and redundancy and failover; any DR situation."
"Ease of support is one of the main features that we have with it. We're able to take Snapshots before doing updates to make it easy to roll back if something does happen to go wrong."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"VMware vSphere is easy to scale. We haven't had any problems scaling what we're scaling now."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"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 pricing and technical support can be improved."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"Pricing is starting to get a little high-end."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
"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."
"I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could be improved."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
"They must work on the price, as well as the technical support."
"Where I think there is room for improvement is in the HTML5 interface in vCenter. What it lacks, for me, is integrating to VMware's other products, especially NSX."
"The latest version of the solution has a few bugs."
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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