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 has an easy setup."
"We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from one server to another."
"It's a very manageable product."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"It is an affordable platform."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to manage."
"The most valuable features are the resilience of the solution and vMotion."
"We've found the High Availability and flexibility to be important."
"The most valuable features for us are HA, DRS, and SDRS."
"The fact that vSphere is an on-premise solution is beneficial for the user. It's easier to manage the infrastructure. It's more straightforward to scale and configure virtual machines."
"VMware vSphere has helped us create our infrastructures and provide services for our customers."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"It's a very useful solution. It's easy to set up, and it's pretty stable."
"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 pricing and technical support can be improved."
"The only negative thing I heard was that the baseline price is very, very attractive relative to VMware, however, the vCenter counterpart, the thing that brings it all together, is quite pricey."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"Hyper-V is hosted on OS but if your OS scratches you are in big trouble. In addition, if a host fails, automatically the machine and the virtual machine should boot from another source. Those type of features would benefit Hyper-V."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"Customer support takes a long time to respond."
"To manage it properly, you have to know this product really well."
"The only concern that I have with VMware is the support. It is very limited and can be better."
"The technical support is good. However, it could be more seamless when it comes to chat support and lower response times."
"vSphere itself is great when you don't need to make updates, but any time you have to touch it, unfortunately it's always the little bit of a fight to get it to do what you want."
"The UI of VMware could use some improvements, especially in dark mode."
"The solution could be a bit more user-friendly."
"As we continue to push mission-critical workloads into vSphere, and those workloads are not readily protected at the application layer for availability, continuing to increase the size limitations on FT-protected VMs would be a great advance."
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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