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 initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from one server to another."
"It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"It is an affordable platform."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"Reduces downtime."
"It's a very nice tool to be able to reduce your footprint, consolidate servers, and accumulate several servers in a high-density configuration."
"The most valuable features are its flexibility and the ability to move workload."
"It is a very stable solution. It performs well for our requirements. It has been running for a long time, so we are very knowledgeable about this solution. It is a very well-supported solution, and it is very flexible. The expansion of its functionality is dynamic."
"The benefit of the solution is that you can create template-based servers within minutes. If you were to use a physical server, it would probably take several hours, if not a whole day, to get everything set up the way you need."
"It's very transparent and independent."
"The most valuable features for us are HA, DRS, and SDRS."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"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 Web Client is too slow."
"When we talk about the overall private cloud stack, I would prefer for it be a lot more seamless."
"Security and patch-related items need improvement."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
"On Vista, there should be a lot more new features. We would like to see more security features to harden our environment in the future."
"The licensing costs are expensive and most of the important features require a license."
"From my point of view, my advice is to design the solution properly the first time."
"I can't speak to any missing features. It has everything I need."
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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