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 virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"I think all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"I like that Hyper-V comes for free with Windows Server. You don't need to buy the license, and you only have to pay for the management aspect in System Center."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"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."
"vMotion radically changes the way we think about how we can operate a large infrastructure, and notably, in terms of proactive maintenance."
"It has high clustering and availability features. These features are not found with other hypervisors."
"The scalability is good."
"The feature that I find very valuable is the ability to move images of virtual machines from different workspaces to other workspaces between different installations."
"It is very easy to use and very stable."
"The roadmap for the product itself covers all of the features that we are looking for."
"The solution is user-friendly. It is easy to convert, create, and manage systems."
"VMware vSphere helps us in not wasting resources like we did when we were using physical servers. It changed our whole environment."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"We previously had a hard time using tech support."
"The cost could always be lower."
"The ability to run ARM based VMs on an x86 platform for testing purposes. With the growing use of SBCs running on ARM architectures for IoT devices, it would be very useful if developers could build and deploy VMs running operating systems like Raspbian used on Raspberry Pi devices on their existing x86 ESXi environments. Even if this is not possible through some form of emulation, the ability to add ARM hypervisors to vSphere environments would be very useful. This will enable more rapid development cycles for customers just getting started with IoT but already existing vSphere users."
"The Web Client is too slow."
"The support is good, but it's slow."
"There is room for improvement in Google Cloud. The reason thing there was, like, when I type something in the terminal and then immediately, I need to go to edit the certain like file for Node.js, for the server, or for Kubernetes. So I have to do it from the terminal to the editor."
"There should be a bit more flexibility in terms of the hardware we can use with the product."
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.
See our list of best Server Virtualization Software vendors.
We monitor all Server Virtualization Software reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.