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's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"Hyper-V can expand storage. For instance, if I have a VM running on NetApp or another platform, I can expand the storage without interrupting operations. It is useful when I need to quickly allocate more storage without causing downtime or performing maintenance tasks."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"The installation process is very straightforward."
"vMotion radically changes the way we think about how we can operate a large infrastructure, and notably, in terms of proactive maintenance."
"The ability of a running VM to be quickly relocated to another hypervisor or launched at another site via replicated storage greatly reduces downtime."
"We scale it both vertically and hortizonally. We have many data centers on it."
"I use the ESXi a lot for my users to create their own templates and control their own VMs without my interaction."
"The GUI is very simple to use."
"VMware vSphere has very good applications and services."
"I would love to see other options for connecting VMs to large data storage."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"There is definitely room for improvement and that improvement should be in the licensing and the simplicity of procuring additional licenses or additional VMware products. Right now, it's very complex."
"The monitoring is not good in vSphere, many times you have latency or you cannot find what you want. The events should be improved."
"They have multiple components required for the setup. It would be better to integrate it into one solution, especially for small business companies."
"Response time could be improved."
"I would like to see VDP and other features included to back up the VMs in a native manner."
"The ability to run ARM based VMs on an x86 platform for testing purposes. With the growing use of SBCs running on ARM architectures for IoT devices, it would be very useful if developers could build and deploy VMs running operating systems like Raspbian used on Raspberry Pi devices on their existing x86 ESXi environments. Even if this is not possible through some form of emulation, the ability to add ARM hypervisors to vSphere environments would be very useful. This will enable more rapid development cycles for customers just getting started with IoT but already existing vSphere users."
"We stopped using a lot of cloud services. However, I see that VMware has integrated with Amazon Cloud. We will now to have to move everything to the cloud."
"It would be nice if it had auto-scaling, no need to select CPU or select database size. Let it auto-scale, let it use the features that VMware has, instead of having to preselect."
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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