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 feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"There is the simplicity of management, accessibility, and availability."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"With the current compliance options that I have to go through, it's very nice to have a lot of the encryption built in. It checks a lot of boxes for the federal level so I don't have to either bolt something on or have something on top of it. Having it native and integrated into the system makes things much easier."
"The most important feature is the ability to balance the servers with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). It is a very useful feature and should be mandatory for vSphere to have but it is only available in the enterprise edition. It should be available in all versions."
"We have the possibility to move workloads to different locations."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to manage."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"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."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"I would love to see other options for connecting VMs to large data storage."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"I would like more Amazon stuff inside of VMware."
"They should improve their storage management part. vSphere has its own file system type, called VMSS, and that file system doesn't report on proper data usage or things like that. There are certain loopholes wherein it sometimes shows you erroneous data. Again, their VMSS file system, their data storage management system, and its reporting must be improved a lot."
"Sometimes it's impossible to prevent problems from happening. With vSphere, you never know where the problem is going to come from, but you will always know that there is a problem. This is the problem."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved."
"The solution could improve by having more integration."
"Technical support could be faster in terms of response times."
"VMware vSphere does not permit hard partitioning."
"The HTML 5 client has always lagged behind."
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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