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 most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"I find that most of the competition is more or less the same. However, Hyper-V is, when you compare it to the older platforms like VMware, a little bit more advanced at this stage."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"One of the most valuable features of Hyper-V is ease to use."
"VMware vSphere is a very stable product."
"vSphere has enabled an enterprise class virtualization environment with a central point of monitoring and management stretched over multiple datacenters (multi-site use), adding all the features of clustering for high-availability and failover, VM migration, and operations."
"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."
"It's a very useful solution. It's easy to set up, and it's pretty stable."
"The tool provides 99.99% uptime."
"VMware vSphere has very good applications and services."
"The tool makes virtualization easy. It was free, and we could profit from its GUI. It helps to manage VMs easily."
"Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"In general, based on my little experience with Hyper-V, I see a lot of obstacles. I think it falls behind the other competitors."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"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."
"The HTML 5 client has always lagged behind."
"Stability-wise, there are some minor issues."
"Two improvements that I would like to see are higher resolution console modes for guests and easier switching between consoles."
"Pricing is starting to get a little high-end."
"It would be nice if it had auto-scaling, no need to select CPU or select database size. Let it auto-scale, let it use the features that VMware has, instead of having to preselect."
"The ability to run ARM based VMs on an x86 platform for testing purposes. With the growing use of SBCs running on ARM architectures for IoT devices, it would be very useful if developers could build and deploy VMs running operating systems like Raspbian used on Raspberry Pi devices on their existing x86 ESXi environments. Even if this is not possible through some form of emulation, the ability to add ARM hypervisors to vSphere environments would be very useful. This will enable more rapid development cycles for customers just getting started with IoT but already existing vSphere users."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"Sometimes you can't find items and you need to log onto different physical servers to do technical tasks. I don't fully understand why this is the case."
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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