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 initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"One of the most valuable features of Hyper-V is ease to use."
"It is a stable product."
"The solution is highly stable."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"VMware vSphere is the best private-cloud solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its performance."
"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."
"Has many good features, and is stable and reliable."
"The most valuable feature is vSAN, as it reduces the cost of SAN storage and maintenance."
"We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running."
"The most valuable features are its flexibility and the ability to move workload."
"Its stability and manageability are valuable."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"The installation is complex and you need to have a good understanding in regards to what you are doing when you are setting it up."
"In future releases, I would like to see less pricing. The license can be improved."
"I would like to see DRS for the GPU machines."
"It is expensive. They can improve the licensing cost for Cloud Director. They can also improve the integration with other applications and the metering feature, which is currently not flexible."
"The only improvement that is needed that come to mind are improvements in the vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations management simplicity."
"The price could be better. The licensing is definitely expensive and tech support is sometimes frustrating."
"I would like to see more software as a service solutions."
"It needs to integrate better between multiple modules."
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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