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 solution is highly stable."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"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 Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"I think all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization and the performance on the virtualization platform."
"Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem."
"It is the number one virtualization-layer platform available, and a lot of people trust it."
"The roadmap for the product itself covers all of the features that we are looking for."
"I find that the Virtual Center Management, iSCSI support, and VMotion hot migration are very beneficial."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"vMotion radically changes the way we think about how we can operate a large infrastructure, and notably, in terms of proactive maintenance."
"We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running."
"Hyper-V's management platform falls short in terms of scalability, especially when handling multiple Hyper-V servers. VMware has a central console to pull in all your VM servers, so you can easily manage them all through one console. You can manage servers in Hyper-V's admin centers, but it's not as scalable. It's doable with a couple of Hyper-V servers, but it becomes harder to manage when you get over two or three Hyper-V servers."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"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."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"The solution should be compatible with different systems."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"The price could be better."
"The licensing costs for the solution are quite high."
"The cost can be better."
"VMware vSphere could be improved with cheaper costs."
"An area for improvement is that when comparing VMware to Nutanix, Nutanix has higher availability, like clustering for virtual machines. That is a good idea and VMware could profit from something like that for higher availability installations."
"They can lower the price of its license."
"There should be a bit more flexibility in terms of the hardware we can use with the product."
"There should be more stability in the updates. They had an issue with the last release."
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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