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 initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"I think the cluster environment is a good feature of Hyper-V because, if something happens, then it will automatically move to some other mode. This is a great feature of the solution."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"I like the standard features."
"Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature."
"It is easy to use."
"VMware Tanzu (container) is the most valuable addition because you get an efficient solution to manage the VM and container in a single pane of glass."
"I think that the solution is perfect. It's the best on the market."
"It affords us different views of the VMs created by vSphere so we can control them better."
"The enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need."
"The built-in encryption of vSphere really helps us to secure our customers, especially customers in the medical field who need to be HIPAA compliant. Being able to encrypt the VM itself helps out a ton."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"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."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"In the next release, I would like to see programming. I'd like to see a lot more about customization for people who want to customize programming API, SDK."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"The solution could be cheaper and less expensive."
"The support is good, but it's slow."
"The biggest pain point is probably the firmware management of the underlying hardware. It could be a lot better."
"An improvement could be in terms of keeping up with the upgrades. The upgrades could be set in an automated way so that the newer features don't require you to manually update, or you get an option to update automatically. This would be a useful enhancement."
"My biggest suggestion would be some kind of a mechanism - and it's almost an AI-type thing, a Siri/Cortana - for where to find how to do certain things. If there was the ability to just type in a basic question and say, "How do I change the VM settings for this?" and it could bring me right there, that would be really awesome."
"The monitoring is not good in vSphere, many times you have latency or you cannot find what you want. The events should 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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