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.
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"The setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"Server consolidation. Getting rid of our physical servers and going virtual is saving us some money in overall rack space."
"I have found the solution to be flexible, and the vCenter and vMotion useful."
"This solution is very stable. It's scalable and simple to set up."
"I don't see any challenges in using this product."
"Its most valuable features are reliability, for sure, and quickness in getting the job done. I can spin off 100 or 200 machines in the matter of half an hour."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"Stability and scalability are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The virtualization, the remote management user interface, and the web console are most valuable."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"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."
"I would like having something that works on a smaller screen, so we can get to it on our iPads and have it more touch-centric versus having to sit at a laptop."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
"VMware vSphere could be more secure and well-known to everyone."
"The biggest thing to improve is to have more self-service in the portals. I would like to receive more help through the web interface."
"There should be a bit more flexibility in terms of the hardware we can use with the product."
"They must work on the price, as well as the technical support."
"From my point of view, my advice is to design the solution properly the first time."
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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