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's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"I like that Hyper-V comes for free with Windows Server. You don't need to buy the license, and you only have to pay for the management aspect in System Center."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"I find that most of the competition is more or less the same. However, Hyper-V is, when you compare it to the older platforms like VMware, a little bit more advanced at this stage."
"There is the simplicity of management, accessibility, and availability."
"The UI is very intuitive, you don't have to spend hours before you figure it out. All in all, compared to other environments, like Hyper-V, we find vSphere a lot more user-friendly and intuitive to use."
"Virtualization, VDI and application publishing are the most valuable features of VMware vSphere."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"I definitely like the stability, performance and ease-of-use."
"Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem."
"Performance; We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"Server Virtualization is the most important feature because that helps me to utilize 100% capacity of my physical server or box. Its redundancy, uptime, or high-availability is also valuable. Storage-sharing is also valuable. In vSAN, I can utilize the maximum storage. In the physical boxes, if you don't require storage, it lies idle, but with VMware or any kind of virtualization, you can utilize the full storage."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"The solution should be compatible with different systems."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention."
"I would like Microsoft to put more effort into the Admin Center interface and make it much easier. It is customizable, but you have to be a PowerShell expert to customize these things. That is a limitation."
"When we talk about the overall private cloud stack, I would prefer for it be a lot more seamless."
"They must work on the price, as well as the technical support."
"The performance of the solution could be better and there could be an extra level of security."
"It would be highly beneficial for VMware to collaborate with local hosts and partners in countries like those in Africa to establish specific pricing that would align with the economic conditions of countries in Africa, ensuring suitability and compatibility with our consumption capabilities."
"Due to the fact that during the last three months there appeared some critical bugs, the virtual machine backup might be inconsistent."
"There is room for improvement in Google Cloud. The reason thing there was, like, when I type something in the terminal and then immediately, I need to go to edit the certain like file for Node.js, for the server, or for Kubernetes. So I have to do it from the terminal to the editor."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
"We need to improve availability and disaster recovery in VMware vSphere."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 30 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 14 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "Enables the creation of secure, isolated virtual environments for running applications and allows seamless transfer of virtual machines between nodes without impacting users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers a suite of software components for virtualization including ESXi, vCenter Server, and other software". 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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