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 makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"The interface is quite good."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"The most valuable feature is being able to do checkpoints then roll back to the checkpoint because that's what we need to test the software. We're testing the installation and then we roll it back and retest it."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"The most valuable features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"VMware Tanzu (container) is the most valuable addition because you get an efficient solution to manage the VM and container in a single pane of glass."
"The ease of movement of these machines is the most valuable. It is very easy to move these machines between physical hosts. The fast deployment of services is another valuable feature."
"The features in VMware vSphere data recovery are excellent. Sometimes I've deleted an entire server before and was able to recover the deleted VM. I just used some command line tools and I was able to restore the deleted VM."
"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 is a very mature solution that is easy to use and flexible."
"It provides a new environment in an expedient manner."
"VMotion is the biggest feature. It gives us the ability to move things on the fly."
"Virtualised automation is a useful feature."
"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."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V."
"In general, based on my little experience with Hyper-V, I see a lot of obstacles. I think it falls behind the other competitors."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"Response time could be improved."
"Inability to get to a single hypervisor environment to support a container environment."
"One problem that needs fixing is when we run the backup for the servers, the servers become inaccessible to everybody on-site while it is creating a snapshot."
"The licensing costs for the solution are quite high."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved."
"It lacks a snapshot feature."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
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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