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.
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"The performance is very good."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"This solution's most valuable feature is its High Availability."
"The interface is good."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"It makes managing your virtual servers easier and more centralized."
"VMware vSphere is easy to scale. We haven't had any problems scaling what we're scaling now."
"It is a very dependable solution. Its performance is very good, and it is also easy to manage and implement."
"VMware vSphere has very good applications and services."
"The VMware community is always there and it is a valuable resource."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"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 have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"NSX is a product of VMware vSphere and it would be nice to see the solution have full integration capabilities with it."
"We'd always like to see the price drop, but I realize that may not be realistic."
"The solution is stable. It has some small bugs which are not influencing the main functions but every software has some bugs."
"I would like to see VMware vSphere provide a centralized patch service on the VMware level, regardless of your operating systems."
"Sentencing has changed a lot."
"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."
"We previously had a hard time using tech support."
"One of the areas creating a crash is when you are cloning."
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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