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 can expand storage. For instance, if I have a VM running on NetApp or another platform, I can expand the storage without interrupting operations. It is useful when I need to quickly allocate more storage without causing downtime or performing maintenance tasks."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"It's not a particular feature, really, however, I can say that the solution is just easy to maintain, and makes it easy to backup all those VMs. We can easily save our data and we can deploy VM machines very fast and create the delivery of the server in a pretty simple, dynamic way."
"The solution is scalable."
"I have found the Storage vMotion feature to be the most valuable."
"The technical support is good and they are available over the internet."
"I find that the Virtual Center Management, iSCSI support, and VMotion hot migration are very beneficial."
"It is very easy to use and very stable."
"vMotion radically changes the way we think about how we can operate a large infrastructure, and notably, in terms of proactive maintenance."
"We have removed the need for backups and going to the office at three in the morning to change a server. I do everything during my business hours. It gave me my life back."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"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."
"The Hyper-V management console could be improved to make it easier. It should be a little bit more granular. Various virtual switches could also be improved to make virtual desk management slightly better. The replication could be improved slightly. The checkpoints or snapshots could be improved to make it a bit more transparent to the user."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"The solution should be compatible with different systems."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"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."
"Technical support is not that great. It is too slow."
"It could be more scalable."
"Security and patch-related items need improvement."
"I would like to see VMware head towards a more GPU friendly environment."
"The documentation could be improved. It does not help me to show the client the value of going with VMware vSphere rather than an open source or cheaper solution."
"I would like to see VDP and other features included to back up the VMs in a native manner."
"The solution could be cheaper and less expensive."
"In addition, I think some of the backup features or the prediction features can be improved."
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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