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.
"It helps us build servers."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"It's a very manageable product."
"Ease of support is one of the main features that we have with it. We're able to take Snapshots before doing updates to make it easy to roll back if something does happen to go wrong."
"We have seen an improvement in uptime. The whole hardware lifecycle process is easier."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"An easy way of providing near-zero downtime services, the operation of the instances between clustered services, and providing the projected SLA for our customers."
"It's very transparent and independent."
"With the current compliance options that I have to go through, it's very nice to have a lot of the encryption built in. It checks a lot of boxes for the federal level so I don't have to either bolt something on or have something on top of it. Having it native and integrated into the system makes things much easier."
"being able to manage a lot of servers in one pane of glass makes things a lot simpler. Basically, a lot of things just happen in one area. You can roll things over, move things around more dynamically, without having to hit multiple systems."
"I think that the solution is perfect. It's the best on the market."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"I would like Microsoft to put more effort into the Admin Center interface and make it much easier. It is customizable, but you have to be a PowerShell expert to customize these things. That is a limitation."
"Hyper-V is hosted on OS but if your OS scratches you are in big trouble. In addition, if a host fails, automatically the machine and the virtual machine should boot from another source. Those type of features would benefit Hyper-V."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
"In addition, I think some of the backup features or the prediction features can be improved."
"It would be highly beneficial for VMware to collaborate with local hosts and partners in countries like those in Africa to establish specific pricing that would align with the economic conditions of countries in Africa, ensuring suitability and compatibility with our consumption capabilities."
"It would be good if the licensing cost of the solution could be cheaper."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"The reporting could be improved."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"I would like to see more support regarding containers, and they need more features for them."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 442 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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