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.
"The installation was straightforward."
"It's a stable product."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"You don't need too many people to manage the solution once it's up and running."
"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."
"being able to manage a lot of servers in one pane of glass makes things a lot simpler. Basically, a lot of things just happen in one area. You can roll things over, move things around more dynamically, without having to hit multiple systems."
"It's a very useful solution. It's easy to set up, and it's pretty stable."
"vMotion is one of the most useful features, which helps to provide both flexibility and High Availability. With new versions of vSphere and vCenter, it is still improving (e.g., vMotion across vCenter Servers and virtual switches)."
"VMware vSphere is the best private-cloud solution."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the overall good ease of use and the good interface which makes it very easy to migrate from one bare metal to another. These are the two things which I like about it."
"The visibility that we have of our VMs is also important. What's being applied? Who has management of them? Laying it out in a virtual environment allows us customization for our students. We're able to respond to the students' needs much more quickly than we could in a physical environment."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"The solution is stable. However, it could improve by being more secure."
"I'd like to see a little bit more integration for VDI. I think that Composer servers, security servers, broker servers with connections, I'm not sure they are necessary at this point. Perhaps they could have a lot of those functions baked directly into the hypervisor. It seems to me that if the hypervisor is scalable and flexible enough, that the processor and compute can handle all of that. Maybe we eliminate those other components for VDIs and have more mixed workloads: server workloads and desktop workloads all in the same hypervisor."
"The solution could be more stable."
"The way that vSphere manages the alerts on the data machine is not easy to configure."
"It is expensive. They can improve the licensing cost for Cloud Director. They can also improve the integration with other applications and the metering feature, which is currently not flexible."
"I would like to see improvements in simplifying automation, cloud native deployment, administration, and fault resolution."
"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."
"They should make it more efficient and stable."
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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