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 most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"The setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"The installation process is very straightforward."
"The ability of a running VM to be quickly relocated to another hypervisor or launched at another site via replicated storage greatly reduces downtime."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We don't have any downtime because it was built right."
"We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running."
"being able to manage a lot of servers in one pane of glass makes things a lot simpler. Basically, a lot of things just happen in one area. You can roll things over, move things around more dynamically, without having to hit multiple systems."
"We use the solution's vMotion feature to migrate VMs from one host to another across different environments and data centers."
"The visibility that we have of our VMs is also important. What's being applied? Who has management of them? Laying it out in a virtual environment allows us customization for our students. We're able to respond to the students' needs much more quickly than we could in a physical environment."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"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."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"I would like to see a little bit more visibility regarding errors. When an error does occur, there are times where it says "Unknown error" or something to that effect, and it doesn't necessarily give you a lot of metrics. If you go online and you give a description of it, normally the VMware forums can help you find out what it is, but I'd like to see a little bit more visibility from the software itself regarding what's going on: "This went wrong, this is why.""
"The technical support is not too bad, but not the best."
"We stopped using a lot of cloud services. However, I see that VMware has integrated with Amazon Cloud. We will now to have to move everything to the cloud."
"The price could be better. The licensing is definitely expensive and tech support is sometimes frustrating."
"On Vista, there should be a lot more new features. We would like to see more security features to harden our environment in the future."
"The integration with containers should be addressed."
"We need to improve availability and disaster recovery in VMware vSphere."
"From my point of view, my advice is to design the solution properly the first time."
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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