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.
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSphere are backup and recovery."
"The solution can scale well."
"Scalability is the big advantage of it. The product itself allows us to scale on the fly as we need it, and plan for the future."
"Their command-line tools integrate well with other Microsoft products like PowerShell, so I can manipulate VMs using it."
"We use it to virtualize our server infrastructure. Virtualization has made it easier for us to manage our environment. We can manage it from location, the vSphere web client."
"Provides good backup to our servers."
"It's extremely simple. Installing the ESXi is a piece of cake and then putting servers on there is really simple and having HA and building a cluster for our VM servers. It's very easy."
"Its DR facility is good. Within a moment, data can be retrieve from another physical location over the Internet. The speed to recover data is good."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"Hyper-V isn't a lightweight solution like VMware. Management could be more straightforward. Even as far as disk management tools are concerned, it would be better if that could be made simpler. The same applies to performance."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"In the next release, I would love to have Java as a service, platform as a service, and container as a service."
"It could improve the hyper-conversions."
"Technical support is not that great. It is too slow."
"Sentencing has changed a lot."
"There should be more stability in the updates. They had an issue with the last release."
"The UI of VMware could use some improvements, especially in dark mode."
"They need to further develop graphics virtualization."
"The latest version of the solution has a few bugs."
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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