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.
"Hyper-V can expand storage. For instance, if I have a VM running on NetApp or another platform, I can expand the storage without interrupting operations. It is useful when I need to quickly allocate more storage without causing downtime or performing maintenance tasks."
"It is an affordable platform."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The performance is very good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere."
"Basic hypervisor functions with HA."
"The most useful features are ESXi, DRS, Auto Deploy, and the Lifecycle Manager."
"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."
"It is highly scalable. We need to scale out and up, and we can do that with vSphere. We can easily add more storage, drives, or memory."
"The most valuable features are that it's stable, easy to use, and it's flexible."
"It is very easy to use and very stable."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"Hyper-V's management platform falls short in terms of scalability, especially when handling multiple Hyper-V servers. VMware has a central console to pull in all your VM servers, so you can easily manage them all through one console. You can manage servers in Hyper-V's admin centers, but it's not as scalable. It's doable with a couple of Hyper-V servers, but it becomes harder to manage when you get over two or three Hyper-V servers."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"The cost can be better."
"An area for improvement is that when comparing VMware to Nutanix, Nutanix has higher availability, like clustering for virtual machines. That is a good idea and VMware could profit from something like that for higher availability installations."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
"vSphere could perhaps be improved by more integration or better security."
"Technical support is not that great. It is too slow."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"The installation is complex and you need to have a good understanding in regards to what you are doing when you are setting it up."
"The technical support is not too bad, but not the best."
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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