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.
"Hyper-V is much easier to deploy because Hyper-V is already installed inside Windows Server OS. You only need to turn on Hyper-V as a service, and then you can use it. The most convenient thing about Hyper-V is the operating system."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"The performance is very good."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"I find that most of the competition is more or less the same. However, Hyper-V is, when you compare it to the older platforms like VMware, a little bit more advanced at this stage."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"It is absolutely simple and efficient to manage. We can bring in people who have never been exposed to vSphere or virtualized environments and they're still able to support it from a server standpoint. The training time as well as the adoption rate, for a junior technician or somebody coming right out of college, is very good."
"We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"We primarily use vRealize to troubleshoot any issues that may arise with our virtual machines, which is the main reason why we believe this solution is excellent."
"It's easy to use, and it is flexible."
"It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve."
"Its stability and manageability are valuable."
"We don't have any downtime because it was built right."
"The VMware community is always there and it is a valuable resource."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"Storage via SMB3."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"The solution is stable. However, it could improve by being more secure."
"The licensing costs for the solution are quite high."
"As we continue to push mission-critical workloads into vSphere, and those workloads are not readily protected at the application layer for availability, continuing to increase the size limitations on FT-protected VMs would be a great advance."
"Reducing the cost of vSphere would be an improvement."
"On the older version of VMware vSphere, possibly version four, we had a feature that allowed us to backup Ziploc machines. It has not been available in the newer version such as six or seven. I have been looking for another solution to accomplish the backups but they should bring back this plugin-type tool to allow older backup capabilities."
"I'd like to get rid of the Flash Client. There are still some things we need to go in there and use it for, some plugins and other things aren't supported in the HTML5."
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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