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 initial setup is easy."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"It's a very manageable product."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"The solution allows for very good virtualization."
"This solution's most valuable feature is its High Availability."
"We could easily move workloads from on-premises to the cloud and vice versa if we were running on-premises and cloud, which is one of the most important points in the new releases, in particular."
"There is the simplicity of management, accessibility, and availability."
"An important vSphere feature from a security perspective is VM encryption. As is the right thing to do in this day and age, security needs to be the number one concern for any IT operator. While there are security solutions which can be delivered at the physical, hardware layer, they don't necessarily address all of the requirements from an encryption perspective. Being able to have VM-centric, VM-level encryption is a great feature of vSphere."
"It is a very dependable solution. Its performance is very good, and it is also easy to manage and implement."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"The provisioning setup of VMs is good."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"We have our scientific network, and it's run off the university sever, and we need two servers to optimize our scientific work, such as the mathematics work. Then you have to work with Python and Java, and Microsoft isn't the best option for this kind of work"
"There's room for improvement in Hyper-V. One area I've personally encountered issues with is live migration. Sometimes during live migrations, the process gets stuck in a certain state. This can happen with replication as well. It's not necessarily a major problem, but at times, the error messages aren't very informative. They don't clearly explain why the migration failed."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"The backup site could be better. We used to face a lot of issues, and we are looking to solve that now. We are in the process of moving all the infrastructure to the cloud. It could also use more integration on the management part. We also need more integration on the monitoring sites."
"The HTML 5 client has always lagged behind."
"The license fee could be more affordable."
"It would be great if VMware could have a consolidated way of delivering this as software rather than pieces and several add-ons so that you could enjoy the product in its entirety."
"Its cost needs to be improved. It is very expensive as compared to other solutions."
"They have multiple components required for the setup. It would be better to integrate it into one solution, especially for small business companies."
"I feel that the scalability of the solution should be improved."
"They can lower the price of its license."
"The biggest issue with stability is the SSO. That is still an issue as far as integrating it with Active Directory, and any large scale of 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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