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.
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"Hyper-V is much easier to deploy because Hyper-V is already installed inside Windows Server OS. You only need to turn on Hyper-V as a service, and then you can use it. The most convenient thing about Hyper-V is the operating system."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"I think the cluster environment is a good feature of Hyper-V because, if something happens, then it will automatically move to some other mode. This is a great feature of the solution."
"With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"The solution is very straightforward to implement."
"The redundancy, the failover, the ability to stay up and running 24/7, all the various tools that are in there, high-availability, DRS, are very critical to us."
"Technical support is helpful and always available."
"What I like about it is being able to see my entire organization, especially with some of the newer enhanced links. All of my data centers show up in one view and I can see every server that's running. I also get performance statistics so if there are issues, major problems going on, I can see them."
"An important vSphere feature from a security perspective is VM encryption. As is the right thing to do in this day and age, security needs to be the number one concern for any IT operator. While there are security solutions which can be delivered at the physical, hardware layer, they don't necessarily address all of the requirements from an encryption perspective. Being able to have VM-centric, VM-level encryption is a great feature of vSphere."
"The most valuable feature is the VDP Backup solution."
"The connectivity is fantastic, and many functions can run together in one server. If you need to scale, we can continue to add components or modules. It's a beautiful virtual solution that has many advantages over physical hardware, where you have to use devices and wiring to connect all your projects."
"VMotion is the biggest feature. It gives us the ability to move things on the fly."
"Hyper-V isn't a lightweight solution like VMware. Management could be more straightforward. Even as far as disk management tools are concerned, it would be better if that could be made simpler. The same applies to performance."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"It could use a smaller learning curve."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"I would like to see VMware head towards a more GPU friendly environment."
"Inability to get to a single hypervisor environment to support a container environment."
"I would like to see the configuration simplified."
"The biggest pain point is probably the firmware management of the underlying hardware. It could be a lot better."
"The cost can be better."
"The reporting could be improved."
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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