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 is stable."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"The performance is very good."
"One of the most valuable features of Hyper-V is ease to use."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"It's a stable product."
"Performance; We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"vSphere brings the features required for an enterprise class system with a lot of supporting components: An intuitive user experience that simplifies and helps operational management."
"The product offers good stability."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"Server consolidation. Getting rid of our physical servers and going virtual is saving us some money in overall rack space."
"VMware vSphere allows you to run multiple virtual machines."
"The solution is very straightforward to implement."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"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."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"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 should be more secure."
"If they improve on the knowledge base and documentation, it would be extremely helpful."
"Without a lot of physical RAM on the hardware, it's not very effective. The stability could be improved in cases like this."
"The only concern that I have with VMware is the support. It is very limited and can be better."
"It would be ideal if they could integrate billing software so that clients can customize it directly on the virtual machine."
"A fully **automatic** and lightweight Virtual Center. Another time this has a huge improvement in last releases. However, a more automatic and simple deployment is required."
"The license fee could be more affordable."
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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