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 that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"Hyper-V can expand storage. For instance, if I have a VM running on NetApp or another platform, I can expand the storage without interrupting operations. It is useful when I need to quickly allocate more storage without causing downtime or performing maintenance tasks."
"It's a stable product."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"The ability to to virtualize systems and run those virtual workloads with a fewer number of servers is tremendous."
"Vmware vSphere is the benchmark of the visualization market."
"Its stability and manageability are valuable."
"The product offers good stability."
"The vMotion in particular I think is the most valuable because this feature provides migrations of virtual machines in case you want to run do maintenance."
"I definitely like the stability, performance and ease-of-use."
"The most valuable features are the resilience of the solution and vMotion."
"Since it is riding inside of a multi-hardware environment, downtime is virtually nothing."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"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."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"In terms of what could be improved, we do face some bugs when cloning the virtual machine - it fails sometimes."
"It would be great if VMware could have a consolidated way of delivering this as software rather than pieces and several add-ons so that you could enjoy the product in its entirety."
"The support is good, but it's slow."
"In the next release, I would like to see programming. I'd like to see a lot more about customization for people who want to customize programming API, SDK."
"It would be good if the licensing cost of the solution could be cheaper."
"Sentencing has changed a lot."
"VMware vSphere does not permit hard partitioning."
"The cost can be better."
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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