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 solution has an easy setup."
"It is a stable product."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"It's a very manageable product."
"The performance of VMware vSphere is good."
"There is the simplicity of management, accessibility, and availability."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to revert to previous snapshots during testing of various guest and application deployments."
"The most valuable features are the seamless HA with vMotion and being able to run vCenters in HA mode."
"Cross vendor integration is in my opinion one of the best features."
"The most valuable feature would be the slight changes they've made to VMFork instant cloning, in which they have abstracted out the parent-child relationship in cloning, in which certain features, like HA and DRS, are now usable on that parent virtual machine. That is wildly amazing and something that wasn't available until 6.7."
"I don't see any challenges in using this product."
"The most valuable features for me are a very easily scalable infrastructure. I can have a couple of hosts to do basic workloads. I can have a lot of hosts to do a lot of workloads. vSAN integrates my storage so I don't need an external storage SAN. I love having everything integrated in the same UI. The new HTML5 interface doesn't require any plugins anymore and it's super-fast."
"The solution should be compatible with different systems."
"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."
"The backup site could be better. We used to face a lot of issues, and we are looking to solve that now. We are in the process of moving all the infrastructure to the cloud. It could also use more integration on the management part. We also need more integration on the monitoring sites."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"The only negative thing I heard was that the baseline price is very, very attractive relative to VMware, however, the vCenter counterpart, the thing that brings it all together, is quite pricey."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"I would like to see VMware head towards a more GPU friendly environment."
"I would like to see a little bit more visibility regarding errors. When an error does occur, there are times where it says "Unknown error" or something to that effect, and it doesn't necessarily give you a lot of metrics. If you go online and you give a description of it, normally the VMware forums can help you find out what it is, but I'd like to see a little bit more visibility from the software itself regarding what's going on: "This went wrong, this is why.""
"VMware vSphere could be more secure and well-known to everyone."
"We need to improve availability and disaster recovery in VMware vSphere."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"The installation is complex and you need to have a good understanding in regards to what you are doing when you are setting it up."
"Due to the fact that during the last three months there appeared some critical bugs, the virtual machine backup might be inconsistent."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
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, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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