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.
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"It is easy to deploy and find troubleshooting articles as well."
"The GUI is very simple to use."
"Cross vendor integration is in my opinion one of the best features."
"The built-in encryption of vSphere really helps us to secure our customers, especially customers in the medical field who need to be HIPAA compliant. Being able to encrypt the VM itself helps out a ton."
"We have the possibility to move workloads to different locations."
"Overall, it is a pretty good solution. We do not have to worry about upgrading the versions that people use for our in-house software. We just create ThinApps, and as soon as they log in, they always get the upgraded version. This part really works well for us."
"The DRS feature of this solution is a very valuable feature."
"The VMware community is always there and it is a valuable resource."
"VMware has antivirus protection that covers the entire VM. If Microsoft could have something similar to this in Hyper-V, that would be great."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"The pricing and technical support can be improved."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"I would like to see better fault and performance reporting in the GUI."
"They can maybe review its price. They can also consider offering a free public version for development for a certain number of users."
"The cost can be better."
"This solution should have a better backup policy. Furthermore, there should be an ability to expose the universal machine. In the current version, you need to shutdown and use an offline virtual machine to backup."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
"The biggest thing to improve is to have more self-service in the portals. I would like to receive more help through the web interface."
"The price could be better. The licensing is definitely expensive and tech support is sometimes frustrating."
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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