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.
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"We've probably seen a 50 percent speed increase on our SQL server. Hyper-V has also significantly reduced our downtimes with faster boot-up and reboot. If we have to reboot a server, there is maybe two or three minutes of downtime. When we were on a bare-metal server, it could be five to ten minutes due to the total boot time."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"The solution is highly stable."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"It is very easy to use and very stable."
"The solution is very scalable."
"An easy way of providing near-zero downtime services, the operation of the instances between clustered services, and providing the projected SLA for our customers."
"Stable and secure management console for virtual environments, with a diligent technical support team."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"I use customization to prevent any network and DNS collisions to the router."
"Basic hypervisor functions with HA."
"One of the network problems I face is I cannot introduce other security layers on top of Hyper-V as you can in VMware. When it comes to the network the VMware is more flexible than Hyper-V."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"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."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"There is still room for improvement with the HTML5 Web Client. They are working on it, as I can see on their blog. However, there is still room for improvement in the newer features that they can push into it."
"The price is a big issue for us because the market is very competitive in our country, so we can't really push our VMware vSphere products because the customers will prefer to use something cheaper."
"Pricing is starting to get a little high-end."
"VMware vSphere could be more secure and well-known to everyone."
"As we introduce the DevOps culture, we need to make sure that the principles and tools used to support this approach can be easily integrated and interoperated with the vSphere environment with no (or less) redundancy in tools and functionality."
"As far as the web client goes, one of the frustrating things is that it's dependent on different browsers. One day it may work with only a given browser or there may be issues with Flash. So I look forward to being able to use the HTML 5 client."
"They need to stop pushing code out so fast."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved."
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, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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