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.
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"It helps us build servers."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"It's a stable product."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The implementation process is simple."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere."
"The web console is the most valuable feature for me. Because no matter what happens with the server, I can still get to it with the web console."
"I use the ESXi a lot for my users to create their own templates and control their own VMs without my interaction."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization and the performance on the virtualization platform."
"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 solution has many valuable features. Virtualization is flexible and it has simple clustering. However, the most important feature is the ability to move between VMs. The vMotion features are very good."
"The solution is easy to use, has high performance, and good virtualization."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"The initial setup is quite complex."
"Its performance is an issue in version 6.5, but with the inclusion of HTML files in vSphere version 6.7, the experience is seamless. In version 6.7, VMware has included the HTML file protocol for the web browser or web console, which has changed the console's response and improved the performance. We are using the trial version of vRealize Operations. It would be nice if some of those capabilities could be included in future versions of vSphere, not as a part of vRealize Operations, but in vSphere itself. It can provide some kind of forecast about your resource consumption based on the actual workload and modeling or testing scenarios. It can give you some advice or tips for the future growth of your infrastructure."
"It is not easy to upgrade VMware vSphere from an old version to a new version."
"When we talk about the overall private cloud stack, I would prefer for it be a lot more seamless."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"We have had some problems setting up the monitoring with vSphere. The process could be simplified."
"There are certain tools the can't run in parallel and occasionally, in those instances, we have trouble migrating customers from one source to our data center."
"Sometimes you can't find items and you need to log onto different physical servers to do technical tasks. I don't fully understand why this is the case."
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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