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."
"The restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"We've probably seen a 50 percent speed increase on our SQL server. Hyper-V has also significantly reduced our downtimes with faster boot-up and reboot. If we have to reboot a server, there is maybe two or three minutes of downtime. When we were on a bare-metal server, it could be five to ten minutes due to the total boot time."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"It is a stable product."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The most valuable feature is being able to VMotion and migrate easily, moving machines around on the host. I know DRS will take care of a lot about that, but there's still some manual intervention here and there, so the flexibility of it has been really good."
"It gives us the ability to be running over 250+ VMs on five physical hosts and in various flavours of guest OSs."
"VMware vSphere has a lot of features that are valuable, such as multiple clusters, VM mobility, VDI, and virtual desktop."
"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 most valuable feature of vSphere is its modularity. I also like the maturity updates. It's available everywhere and almost all the data centers are using it."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSphere is the ability to work in a big system infrastructure."
"VMware vSphere allows you to run multiple virtual machines."
"Valuable features include VHA, DRS, VMotion, and redundancy and failover; any DR situation."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"I am using this solution with E-Notes. I heard that there will be future improvements in integration of the E-notes systems. This would be very helpful."
"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."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"It needs to integrate better between multiple modules."
"Its cost needs to be improved. It is very expensive as compared to other solutions."
"Here in Egypt, we would like everything free. So if you give us the license for free, we would be thrilled."
"The solution's technical team is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"Its price should be better. Their support should also be more customer-friendly, and they should train people like us so that we know more about the latest technologies and features. If there is some program and drive from their side to teach us, it is definitely going to help us. Pricing and support are the most important features for mid-level companies. We are not implementing this solution for big tech companies."
"VMware has amped up how frequently they release new versions and that adds instability to a stable environment."
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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