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.
"I like the functionality."
"It helps us build servers."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"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 most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"The scalability of the solution is good. You can scale up to maximum levels."
"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."
"This solution is very stable. It's scalable and simple to set up."
"The ability to monitor resource utilization."
"The VMware community is always there and it is a valuable resource."
"VMware vSphere is a stable platform. We never had any issues with VMware vSphere. Once you deploy it with a stable version of the server or the hardware, there's no issue at all."
"The tool provides 99.99% uptime."
"Provides good backup to our servers."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"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."
"VMware has amped up how frequently they release new versions and that adds instability to a stable environment."
"We want to see improvement from VMware with security. We want minimal downtime. We want automation. We want to deploy more efficiently."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
"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."
"They should improve their storage management part. vSphere has its own file system type, called VMSS, and that file system doesn't report on proper data usage or things like that. There are certain loopholes wherein it sometimes shows you erroneous data. Again, their VMSS file system, their data storage management system, and its reporting must be improved a lot."
"This solution should have a better backup policy. Furthermore, there should be an ability to expose the universal machine. In the current version, you need to shutdown and use an offline virtual machine to backup."
"I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could be improved."
"The improvement is more from a licensing perspective rather than from a feature functionality perspective. There could be more flexibility and fewer model options to make it easier to sell. Today, there are so many different options available, and sometimes, it is not really clear which one is the right version or the right model to propose."
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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