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.
"One of the most valuable features of Hyper-V is ease to use."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"Our customers opt for virtualization because it's cheaper and better than non-virtualized solutions. VMware is probably the best on the market now."
"The solution is also very simple and efficient to manage. Features that have made it simple and easy to manage include the newer VAMI for the V-center appliance, it's very easy to see what version we are at, and very easy to upgrade to the next version. The fact that we can now use VCHA at the appliance level just decreases our chance of having an outage because so many of our customers rely on the API interface for V-center."
"Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem."
"It gives us the ability to be running over 250+ VMs on five physical hosts and in various flavours of guest OSs."
"The virtualization, the remote management user interface, and the web console are most valuable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the overall virtualization technology and the new features that allow you to move servers from one system to another."
"I have found the Storage vMotion feature to be the most valuable."
"Vmware vSphere is the benchmark of the visualization market."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"The solution is heavily reliant on Microsoft's active directory for authentication, for coordination between nodes. Therefore, it inherits all the issues that are within the active directory."
"There's room for improvement in Hyper-V. One area I've personally encountered issues with is live migration. Sometimes during live migrations, the process gets stuck in a certain state. This can happen with replication as well. It's not necessarily a major problem, but at times, the error messages aren't very informative. They don't clearly explain why the migration failed."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"Hyper-V's management platform falls short in terms of scalability, especially when handling multiple Hyper-V servers. VMware has a central console to pull in all your VM servers, so you can easily manage them all through one console. You can manage servers in Hyper-V's admin centers, but it's not as scalable. It's doable with a couple of Hyper-V servers, but it becomes harder to manage when you get over two or three Hyper-V servers."
"I would like more Amazon stuff inside of VMware."
"The solution's technical team is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"On Vista, there should be a lot more new features. We would like to see more security features to harden our environment in the future."
"The latest version of the solution has a few bugs."
"They need to stop pushing code out so fast."
"The solution could be more stable."
"Its cost needs to be improved. It is very expensive as compared to other solutions."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
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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