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 solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"It is an affordable platform."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"I like the functionality."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"I like stability and the organization of the different functions into the I#M feature which is also quite useful, quite stable."
"vRealize Operations Manager is the most valuable feature, but it is not embedded in vSphere; it is a part of vSphere. It is used for forecasting and checking the consumption of CPU, memory, and other resources. It has the capability to do the forecast based on the history and give advice on consumption. VMware vSphere is easy to use and easy to implement. Its learning curve is not sharp. Any engineer with little or medium knowledge of hypervisors and virtualizations can implement vSphere with a few clicks."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"VMware vSphere allows you to run multiple virtual machines."
"The performance is efficient."
"The most valuable features are the vMotion, the storage vMotion, the DRS, and the high availability function."
"The built-in encryption of vSphere really helps us to secure our customers, especially customers in the medical field who need to be HIPAA compliant. Being able to encrypt the VM itself helps out a ton."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"The backup site could be better. We used to face a lot of issues, and we are looking to solve that now. We are in the process of moving all the infrastructure to the cloud. It could also use more integration on the management part. We also need more integration on the monitoring sites."
"There's room for improvement in Hyper-V. One area I've personally encountered issues with is live migration. Sometimes during live migrations, the process gets stuck in a certain state. This can happen with replication as well. It's not necessarily a major problem, but at times, the error messages aren't very informative. They don't clearly explain why the migration failed."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
"The price could be better."
"Sometimes it's impossible to prevent problems from happening. With vSphere, you never know where the problem is going to come from, but you will always know that there is a problem. This is the problem."
"We previously had a hard time using tech support."
"NSX is a product of VMware vSphere and it would be nice to see the solution have full integration capabilities with it."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
"Sentencing has changed a lot."
"Without a lot of physical RAM on the hardware, it's not very effective. The stability could be improved in cases like this."
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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