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 replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"The restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"The installation was straightforward."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"The solution has good scalability."
"It is an affordable platform."
"The interface is quite good."
"The most valuable features are the vMotion, the storage vMotion, the DRS, and the high availability function."
"The performance of VMware vSphere is good."
"The scalability is good."
"In the past, we struggled with VM encryption. We couldn't encrypt the virtual machines with older versions of vSphere without some kind of third-party tool. Now, with 6.7, it's all in the application itself, in vSphere. We no longer have to procure additional products to meet that requirement. We can just do it on the fly, and pass our audit with no issues."
"We don't have any downtime because it was built right."
"VMware vSphere is user friendly. It is scalable and stable."
"There are no issues with the level of scalability you can achieve."
"The scalability has been good."
"Hyper-V is hosted on OS but if your OS scratches you are in big trouble. In addition, if a host fails, automatically the machine and the virtual machine should boot from another source. Those type of features would benefit Hyper-V."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
"Its cost needs to be improved. It is very expensive as compared to other solutions."
"The performance of the solution could be better and there could be an extra level of security."
"I would like to see VDP and other features included to back up the VMs in a native manner."
"The web user interface can be a bit clunky from time to time, so there may be some room for improvement in that regard."
"There is definitely room for improvement and that improvement should be in the licensing and the simplicity of procuring additional licenses or additional VMware products. Right now, it's very complex."
"Integration with different platforms could be improved."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
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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