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.
"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"It's easy to use."
"Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature."
"We scale it both vertically and hortizonally. We have many data centers on it."
"It is absolutely simple and efficient to manage. We can bring in people who have never been exposed to vSphere or virtualized environments and they're still able to support it from a server standpoint. The training time as well as the adoption rate, for a junior technician or somebody coming right out of college, is very good."
"Technical support is quite good and very responsive."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"Production people can quickly reboot the server with ESXi Quick Boot."
"The solution is stable."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The Hyper-V management console could be improved to make it easier. It should be a little bit more granular. Various virtual switches could also be improved to make virtual desk management slightly better. The replication could be improved slightly. The checkpoints or snapshots could be improved to make it a bit more transparent to the user."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"Hyper-V serves its purpose, but some areas may not be as feature-rich as alternatives like VMware ESXi."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"The pipeline feature can be improved, as it doesn't allow for specific situations."
"Due to the fact that during the last three months there appeared some critical bugs, the virtual machine backup might be inconsistent."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"We would like to see the container-based operating system launched soon for this solution."
"Both the price and the licensing fee are expensive, especially for our clients with a smaller workload."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"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."
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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