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.
"One of the most valuable features of Hyper-V is ease to use."
"It's a stable product."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"I think all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSphere is the ability to work in a big system infrastructure."
"Virtualised automation is a useful feature."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"It's easy to use and very user-friendly."
"The benefit of the solution is that you can create template-based servers within minutes. If you were to use a physical server, it would probably take several hours, if not a whole day, to get everything set up the way you need."
"The most useful features are ESXi, DRS, Auto Deploy, and the Lifecycle Manager."
"It is easy to maintain our data machines and take snapshots with the solution."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"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 Hyper-V management console could be improved to make it easier. It should be a little bit more granular. Various virtual switches could also be improved to make virtual desk management slightly better. The replication could be improved slightly. The checkpoints or snapshots could be improved to make it a bit more transparent to the user."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"The technical support could improve by being a little faster."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
"These days we have an environment where we are often using clouds as well. A solution that would be a little more cloud-aware would be really helpful. I know there is a product from VMware that is more specifically for the cloud, but it would be nice if VMware Cloud Manager would be cloud-aware. It would simplify certain processes."
"The technical support is not too bad, but not the best."
"If they improve on the knowledge base and documentation, it would be extremely helpful."
"There is still room for improvement with the HTML5 Web Client. They are working on it, as I can see on their blog. However, there is still room for improvement in the newer features that they can push into it."
"In the next release, I would love to have Java as a service, platform as a service, and container as a service."
"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."
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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