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 stable and the cost is reasonable."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"This solution's most valuable feature is its High Availability."
"The solution is scalable."
"It's easy to use and very user-friendly."
"The tool makes virtualization easy. It was free, and we could profit from its GUI. It helps to manage VMs easily."
"I think that the solution is perfect. It's the best on the market."
"The solution is stable."
"Its DR facility is good. Within a moment, data can be retrieve from another physical location over the Internet. The speed to recover data is good."
"VMware vSphere has helped us create our infrastructures and provide services for our customers."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"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."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"I am using this solution with E-Notes. I heard that there will be future improvements in integration of the E-notes systems. This would be very helpful."
"I would like to see VMware head towards a more GPU friendly environment."
"The UI of VMware could use some improvements, especially in dark mode."
"I'd like to get rid of the Flash Client. There are still some things we need to go in there and use it for, some plugins and other things aren't supported in the HTML5."
"They must work on the price, as well as the technical support."
"The solution should be more secure."
"They should make it more efficient and stable."
"We'd always like to see the price drop, but I realize that may not be realistic."
"Sometimes you can't find items and you need to log onto different physical servers to do technical tasks. I don't fully understand why this is the case."
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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