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.
"It is an affordable platform."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"It's a stable product."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"Hyper-V improved the infrastructure drastically, not only from a performance perspective but from a control/administration view as well."
"The most valuable features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running."
"The most useful features are ESXi, DRS, Auto Deploy, and the Lifecycle Manager."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"The initial setup is very easy and takes half an hour to complete."
"VMware vSphere is a very stable product."
"vSphere has enabled an enterprise class virtualization environment with a central point of monitoring and management stretched over multiple datacenters (multi-site use), adding all the features of clustering for high-availability and failover, VM migration, and operations."
"VMware vSphere is user friendly. It is scalable and stable."
"I like the capability of logging into one system, then being able to shift over to another system within that single pane of glass."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"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."
"I would like to see better fault and performance reporting in the GUI."
"They have multiple components required for the setup. It would be better to integrate it into one solution, especially for small business companies."
"To manage it properly, you have to know this product really well."
"We've been using vSphere on Windows 7, and it had less fluff associated with ThinApp. Currently, with Windows 10 version that we have, it adds a lot of bulk to ThinApp. We have offices spanning across Canada from the east coast to the west coast. A ThinApp that is roughly around 400 MB in size would take minutes to open up. With Windows 7, the same ThinApp used to be close to 75 to 80 MB in size. So, I'm really not happy with the extra fluff that is bundled in Windows 10. It really messes things up for us at times."
"The solution is stable. However, it could improve by being more secure."
"Reporting on vCenter needs to be improved."
"The implementation of VMware vSphere is easy. For integration companies, it's easy, the final client cannot do it alone but for an implementor it's easy."
"Both the price and the licensing fee are expensive, especially for our clients with a smaller workload."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". 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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