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 of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"The interface is quite good."
"The restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"The tool provides 99.99% uptime."
"The stability of VMware vSphere is very good. It has high resiliency, it is one of the best solutions on the market."
"The enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need."
"I like the capability of vMotion, DRS, high availability, and resource distribution."
"The most important feature is the ability to balance the servers with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). It is a very useful feature and should be mandatory for vSphere to have but it is only available in the enterprise edition. It should be available in all versions."
"The solution allows for very good virtualization."
"The connectivity is fantastic, and many functions can run together in one server. If you need to scale, we can continue to add components or modules. It's a beautiful virtual solution that has many advantages over physical hardware, where you have to use devices and wiring to connect all your projects."
"Most valuable features of vSphere 6.7, for us, at the management level would be: VCHA is a nice redundancy feature that they added in v6.7. I like the quality of life improvements with the VMFS-6 for using auto UNMAP on the data stores. And we really appreciate the improvements to the Clarity UI where we can manage Update Manager (VUM) and our vSAN stack within the modern interface."
"One of the network problems I face is I cannot introduce other security layers on top of Hyper-V as you can in VMware. When it comes to the network the VMware is more flexible than Hyper-V."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"There are certain tools the can't run in parallel and occasionally, in those instances, we have trouble migrating customers from one source to our data center."
"Technical support could be faster in terms of response times."
"Get the HTML5 client to 100% parity to replace the Flash client."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
"The technical support is good. However, it could be more seamless when it comes to chat support and lower response times."
"In the next release, I would love to have Java as a service, platform as a service, and container as a service."
"OS templates should be readily available, so there is no need to get an OS separately. Only the activation part should be different, which is not presently available due to the need to get the OS from a different location, then create VMs."
"VMware vSphere is perfect for the on-premise solution, but we are in the cloud era, so I think maybe VMware needs to invest more in the cloud and the microservice chain. It would be better if VMware offered more cloud solutions and continuous applications."
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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