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.
"Hyper-V improved the infrastructure drastically, not only from a performance perspective but from a control/administration view as well."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"The solution is highly stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"It is an affordable platform."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable."
"Technical support was helpful and knowledgeable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vMotion."
"vSphere brings the features required for an enterprise class system with a lot of supporting components: An intuitive user experience that simplifies and helps operational management."
"Cross vendor integration is in my opinion one of the best features."
"An easy way of providing near-zero downtime services, the operation of the instances between clustered services, and providing the projected SLA for our customers."
"I like the capability of logging into one system, then being able to shift over to another system within that single pane of glass."
"We find the solution simple and efficient to manage."
"The product is very easy to install."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention."
"In future releases, I would like to see less pricing. The license can be improved."
"I do not find it to be simple and efficient to manage. The tools, the interface to manage it, are a pain. In the latest version, they moved us to web-only, the Web Client and it's terrible. It's slow. It crashes. It's annoying. I used the Web Client in the older version and was happy. I would go back to the regular thick client but I don't have that option anymore, so I am always fighting it."
"The pipeline feature can be improved, as it doesn't allow for specific situations."
"The biggest problem in this solution is the incompatibility of some of the features with some of the drivers installed on servers. For example, if I want to install vSphere on an HPE server, the driver is really different from a Dell server or a Fujitsu server. I need to download different drivers and install them manually, which can be improved by VMware. They can offer a special image to match different servers. We face different problems when we install vSphere on an ESXi server and have different drivers on the storage. ESXi cannot detect different kinds of storage, and they should improve this. We updated our existing version to vSphere 7 in a private environment, but it seems that this version is not very stable. We are facing issues with restarting the host. In earlier versions, such as vSphere 6 or 6.5, we didn't have any such problems. It would be good if VMware can offer specific applications for mobiles to enable us to control the management of all servers by mobile. They should also improve the vCenter GUI because it is currently not compatible, and there are a lot of problems. Some of the options do not appear well in the browser. VMware should spend more time resolving the problems in the GUI."
"Due to the fact that during the last three months there appeared some critical bugs, the virtual machine backup might be inconsistent."
"I would like to see VMware vSphere provide a centralized patch service on the VMware level, regardless of your operating systems."
"It is expensive."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should 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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