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 flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"It helps us build servers."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"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."
"The stability of VMware vSphere is very good. It has high resiliency, it is one of the best solutions on the market."
"The solution allows for very good virtualization."
"Server Virtualization is the most important feature because that helps me to utilize 100% capacity of my physical server or box. Its redundancy, uptime, or high-availability is also valuable. Storage-sharing is also valuable. In vSAN, I can utilize the maximum storage. In the physical boxes, if you don't require storage, it lies idle, but with VMware or any kind of virtualization, you can utilize the full storage."
"The solution is easy to use, has high performance, and good virtualization."
"In terms of overall features, vSphere's stability stands out on top. Not only is it highly stable, but we're also able to have a quick backup server on standby."
"This solution's most valuable feature is its High Availability."
"It is a powerful solution that enables us to take a snapshot and clone any version of machine."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere."
"The solution should be compatible with different systems."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"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."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"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."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"A fully **automatic** and lightweight Virtual Center. Another time this has a huge improvement in last releases. However, a more automatic and simple deployment is required."
"I would like to see AI in future releases."
"When I use VMware and Citrix there are conflicts."
"The one area where I would love to see an improvement is the HTML5 client. It's great, but it could get better."
"I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could be improved."
"The cost can be better."
"The solution should offer more integration capabilities."
"I’d like to see a better web console or rather, transform the web console in a real single pane of glass for the whole infrastructure instead of having to go for vRealize Ops Manager."
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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