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 flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"Hyper-V improved the infrastructure drastically, not only from a performance perspective but from a control/administration view as well."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"I like the functionality."
"The tool makes virtualization easy. It was free, and we could profit from its GUI. It helps to manage VMs easily."
"Provides good backup to our servers."
"The solution is also very simple and efficient to manage. Features that have made it simple and easy to manage include the newer VAMI for the V-center appliance, it's very easy to see what version we are at, and very easy to upgrade to the next version. The fact that we can now use VCHA at the appliance level just decreases our chance of having an outage because so many of our customers rely on the API interface for V-center."
"What I like about it is being able to see my entire organization, especially with some of the newer enhanced links. All of my data centers show up in one view and I can see every server that's running. I also get performance statistics so if there are issues, major problems going on, I can see them."
"Technical support was helpful and knowledgeable."
"The GUI is very simple to use."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSphere are backup and recovery."
"You don't need too many people to manage the solution once it's up and running."
"In an upcoming release, they can improve by having better cloud integration. We are all moving towards the clouds and the integration is only through the Azure Stack, there should be tools built in to move the VMs natively to the cloud and infrastructure. Additionally, they could provide some form of multi-cloud integration."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention."
"Integration with different platforms could be improved."
"They have multiple components required for the setup. It would be better to integrate it into one solution, especially for small business companies."
"The pipeline feature can be improved, as it doesn't allow for specific situations."
"The only concern that I have with VMware is the support. It is very limited and can be better."
"The performance of the solution could be better and there could be an extra level of security."
"As far as the web client goes, one of the frustrating things is that it's dependent on different browsers. One day it may work with only a given browser or there may be issues with Flash. So I look forward to being able to use the HTML 5 client."
"The setup is easy. However, the configuration expansion can be difficult. The full implementation took three to four days. This included the move from physical servers to virtual ones."
"They can lower the price of its license."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". 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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