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.
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"The implementation process is simple."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"It is absolutely simple and efficient to manage. We can bring in people who have never been exposed to vSphere or virtualized environments and they're still able to support it from a server standpoint. The training time as well as the adoption rate, for a junior technician or somebody coming right out of college, is very good."
"It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve."
"The most valuable features for us are DRS, VMotion, and, of course, some of the analytics that we were able to define to quantify our workloads and tell us how we are able to make our data center more efficient."
"The performance is efficient."
"Valuable features really depend on different projects. We are using the traditional infrastructure based on VMware vSphere. We are also using the high availability (HA) and Distributed Switch features to extend our network and switch between different hosts. The VMotion and SVMotion features are very essential for us to relocate the storage of virtual machines to different storage or vSANs. We are using VMotion and SVMotion features several times of the day. We are also using another VMware product to replicate a lot of solutions to a second replication site."
"The most valuable features are the seamless HA with vMotion and being able to run vCenters in HA mode."
"There are no issues with the level of scalability you can achieve."
"I don't see any challenges in using this product."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"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 latest version of the solution has a few bugs."
"There is room for improvement in Google Cloud. The reason thing there was, like, when I type something in the terminal and then immediately, I need to go to edit the certain like file for Node.js, for the server, or for Kubernetes. So I have to do it from the terminal to the editor."
"They need to stop pushing code out so fast."
"In terms of what could be improved, we do face some bugs when cloning the virtual machine - it fails sometimes."
"The solution could be more stable."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
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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