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.
"It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"It is an affordable platform."
"The restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"It is a stable product."
"The most valuable features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"It's a stable product."
"The solution is stable."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vMotion."
"It is highly scalable. We need to scale out and up, and we can do that with vSphere. We can easily add more storage, drives, or memory."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"We have the possibility to move workloads to different locations."
"The virtualization this solution offer is very complete for the infrastructure."
"The solution allows for very good virtualization."
"We primarily use vRealize to troubleshoot any issues that may arise with our virtual machines, which is the main reason why we believe this solution is excellent."
"We have our scientific network, and it's run off the university sever, and we need two servers to optimize our scientific work, such as the mathematics work. Then you have to work with Python and Java, and Microsoft isn't the best option for this kind of work"
"It would be nice if it was turned into its own product because that's the problem with it. It doesn't have a single place where you can manage things. You have to go into all different screens to be able to configure it. And then you have no idea what the performance is. It's really just a feature added to Windows, and Microsoft does not really have anything that pulls it all together well. Compared to VMware, it does not have everything collaborate on one screen."
"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."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"In an upcoming release, they can improve by having better cloud integration. We are all moving towards the clouds and the integration is only through the Azure Stack, there should be tools built in to move the VMs natively to the cloud and infrastructure. Additionally, they could provide some form of multi-cloud integration."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"The challenge that we have is keeping the system up to date, as well as having the internal resources to maintain that platform. We're not an IT company, so it's challenging for us to keep the IT resources in-house."
"When we talk about the overall private cloud stack, I would prefer for it be a lot more seamless."
"NSX is a product of VMware vSphere and it would be nice to see the solution have full integration capabilities with it."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved."
"The HR proxy is actually a little bit tricky to install and setup."
"To manage it properly, you have to know this product really well."
"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."
"I would like to see VMware head towards a more GPU friendly 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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