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 performance is very good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I use customization to prevent any network and DNS collisions to the router."
"VMware vSphere helps us in not wasting resources like we did when we were using physical servers. It changed our whole environment."
"I have found the solution to be flexible, and the vCenter and vMotion useful."
"Basic hypervisor functions with HA."
"It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve."
"The fact that vSphere is an on-premise solution is beneficial for the user. It's easier to manage the infrastructure. It's more straightforward to scale and configure virtual machines."
"The performance is efficient."
"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."
"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."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having more integration."
"The HR proxy is actually a little bit tricky to install and setup."
"I'd like to get rid of the Flash Client. There are still some things we need to go in there and use it for, some plugins and other things aren't supported in the HTML5."
"The price could be better. The licensing is definitely expensive and tech support is sometimes frustrating."
"The only improvement that is needed that come to mind are improvements in the vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations management simplicity."
"One of the areas creating a crash is when you are cloning."
"Due to the fact that during the last three months there appeared some critical bugs, the virtual machine backup might be inconsistent."
"An area for improvement is that when comparing VMware to Nutanix, Nutanix has higher availability, like clustering for virtual machines. That is a good idea and VMware could profit from something like that for higher availability installations."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". 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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