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."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"It is good for small installations."
"It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"We scale it both vertically and hortizonally. We have many data centers on it."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"In the past, we struggled with VM encryption. We couldn't encrypt the virtual machines with older versions of vSphere without some kind of third-party tool. Now, with 6.7, it's all in the application itself, in vSphere. We no longer have to procure additional products to meet that requirement. We can just do it on the fly, and pass our audit with no issues."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the ease of deployment. It's also user-friendly and has been on the market for more than a decade, so it's a leading technology in hypervisor solutions."
"The GUI is very simple to use."
"The solution saves cost."
"Stable and secure management console for virtual environments, with a diligent technical support team."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"Storage via SMB3."
"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."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"In general, based on my little experience with Hyper-V, I see a lot of obstacles. I think it falls behind the other competitors."
"We've been using vSphere on Windows 7, and it had less fluff associated with ThinApp. Currently, with Windows 10 version that we have, it adds a lot of bulk to ThinApp. We have offices spanning across Canada from the east coast to the west coast. A ThinApp that is roughly around 400 MB in size would take minutes to open up. With Windows 7, the same ThinApp used to be close to 75 to 80 MB in size. So, I'm really not happy with the extra fluff that is bundled in Windows 10. It really messes things up for us at times."
"Inability to get to a single hypervisor environment to support a container environment."
"It lacks a snapshot feature."
"I would like to see VDP and other features included to back up the VMs in a native manner."
"Integration with different platforms could be improved."
"The challenge that we have is keeping the system up to date, as well as having the internal resources to maintain that platform. We're not an IT company, so it's challenging for us to keep the IT resources in-house."
"When we talk about the overall private cloud stack, I would prefer for it be a lot more seamless."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
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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