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.
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"The restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"Hyper-V deployment is very user-friendly. It supports partial scripting and offers a UI for a smooth experience. There's also PowerShell scripting available for advanced users."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"Having a virtualized infrastructure and being able to bring up Windows, Linux, and VMware within a virtualized environment brings more technology into the classroom. Without it, we couldn't do what we do."
"In the past, we struggled with VM encryption. We couldn't encrypt the virtual machines with older versions of vSphere without some kind of third-party tool. Now, with 6.7, it's all in the application itself, in vSphere. We no longer have to procure additional products to meet that requirement. We can just do it on the fly, and pass our audit with no issues."
"Virtualised automation is a useful feature."
"The initial setup is easy."
"VMware vSphere has useful tools for management and support."
"VMware vSphere has helped us create our infrastructures and provide services for our customers."
"The solution has high availability."
"It is very stable and scalable, and implementation is straightforward as well."
"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."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"Hyper-V isn't a lightweight solution like VMware. Management could be more straightforward. Even as far as disk management tools are concerned, it would be better if that could be made simpler. The same applies to performance."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"The solution should offer more integration capabilities."
"The solution could be more stable."
"The solution's technical team is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"They can maybe review its price. They can also consider offering a free public version for development for a certain number of users."
"On the older version of VMware vSphere, possibly version four, we had a feature that allowed us to backup Ziploc machines. It has not been available in the newer version such as six or seven. I have been looking for another solution to accomplish the backups but they should bring back this plugin-type tool to allow older backup capabilities."
"VMware vSphere could be more secure and well-known to everyone."
"It would be highly beneficial for VMware to collaborate with local hosts and partners in countries like those in Africa to establish specific pricing that would align with the economic conditions of countries in Africa, ensuring suitability and compatibility with our consumption capabilities."
"The technical support is poor. We are in Australia, but we do not have the same level of support as the US and Europe."
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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