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.
"Hyper-V improved the infrastructure drastically, not only from a performance perspective but from a control/administration view as well."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"The solution is highly stable."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"It is actually very low on resources. It doesn't use many resources. It is also very easy to tailor. You can change things like the amount of memory and storage on the fly. It is very stable and reliable. I like its replication feature, which is very good. It is also very easy to move the virtual machines across push servers without any difficulty. Its performance is also very good. Now with this pandemic, a lot of workers are working from home. A lot of workers have been using laptops as their desktop computers, and they would remote into a virtual PC. There is no difficulty, and they can't tell the difference between this and the real one. It is much easier to manage."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"The solution is stable."
"It is easy to maintain our data machines and take snapshots with the solution."
"There are no issues with the level of scalability you can achieve."
"It cuts down on hardware costs by being able to virtualize multiple hardware and multiple machines on a single piece of hardware."
"Stable and secure management console for virtual environments, with a diligent technical support team."
"Virtualization, VDI and application publishing are the most valuable features of VMware vSphere."
"VMware vSphere is a stable platform. We never had any issues with VMware vSphere. Once you deploy it with a stable version of the server or the hardware, there's no issue at all."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"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."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"The solution is heavily reliant on Microsoft's active directory for authentication, for coordination between nodes. Therefore, it inherits all the issues that are within the active directory."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"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 solution could be a bit more user-friendly."
"If they improve on the knowledge base and documentation, it would be extremely helpful."
"In addition, I think some of the backup features or the prediction features can be improved."
"On Vista, there should be a lot more new features. We would like to see more security features to harden our environment in the future."
"One of the areas creating a crash is when you are cloning."
"As we introduce the DevOps culture, we need to make sure that the principles and tools used to support this approach can be easily integrated and interoperated with the vSphere environment with no (or less) redundancy in tools and functionality."
"There needs to be more integration overall. That would be quite helpful."
"NSX is a product of VMware vSphere and it would be nice to see the solution have full integration capabilities with it."
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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