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.
"Hyper-V improved the infrastructure drastically, not only from a performance perspective but from a control/administration view as well."
"The performance is very good."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"The most valuable feature is being able to do checkpoints then roll back to the checkpoint because that's what we need to test the software. We're testing the installation and then we roll it back and retest it."
"The solution has good scalability."
"It is actually very low on resources. It doesn't use many resources. It is also very easy to tailor. You can change things like the amount of memory and storage on the fly. It is very stable and reliable. I like its replication feature, which is very good. It is also very easy to move the virtual machines across push servers without any difficulty. Its performance is also very good. Now with this pandemic, a lot of workers are working from home. A lot of workers have been using laptops as their desktop computers, and they would remote into a virtual PC. There is no difficulty, and they can't tell the difference between this and the real one. It is much easier to manage."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"I think that the solution is perfect. It's the best on the market."
"The most valuable features are the resilience of the solution and vMotion."
"I find that the Virtual Center Management, iSCSI support, and VMotion hot migration are very beneficial."
"The solution is user-friendly. It is easy to convert, create, and manage systems."
"The most useful features are ESXi, DRS, Auto Deploy, and the Lifecycle Manager."
"The vMotion in particular I think is the most valuable because this feature provides migrations of virtual machines in case you want to run do maintenance."
"Once you have everything configured, it is relatively straightforward."
"The technical support is good and they are available over the internet."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"Storage via SMB3."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"The solution should be more secure."
"It would be nice to see it a little more tightly integrated with the patching solution so you could do it in one pane of glass. Right now, you have to jump back and forth. It's still not difficult, but you have to jump back and forth to do your update definitions and then go back and actually do the updates themselves."
"The installation can take a long time, they need to improve on the simplicity and length of the installation."
"I can't speak to any missing features. It has everything I need."
"Reporting on vCenter needs to be improved."
"The solution could be a bit more user-friendly."
"They need to further develop graphics virtualization."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
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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