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 user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"The interface is good."
"The GUI is very simple to use."
"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."
"The easy of use with reduced space provides a better use of infrastructure"
"It is easy to use."
"The solution is very straightforward to implement."
"The vMotion in particular I think is the most valuable because this feature provides migrations of virtual machines in case you want to run do maintenance."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"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."
"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."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"As we introduce the DevOps culture, we need to make sure that the principles and tools used to support this approach can be easily integrated and interoperated with the vSphere environment with no (or less) redundancy in tools and functionality."
"The web user interface can be a bit clunky from time to time, so there may be some room for improvement in that regard."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"Pricing is starting to get a little high-end."
"I would like more Amazon stuff inside of VMware."
"The licensing costs for the solution are quite high."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"As we continue to push mission-critical workloads into vSphere, and those workloads are not readily protected at the application layer for availability, continuing to increase the size limitations on FT-protected VMs would be a great advance."
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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