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.
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"It helps us build servers."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"It makes managing your virtual servers easier and more centralized."
"The most valuable features are stability and support."
"Most valuable features of vSphere 6.7, for us, at the management level would be: VCHA is a nice redundancy feature that they added in v6.7. I like the quality of life improvements with the VMFS-6 for using auto UNMAP on the data stores. And we really appreciate the improvements to the Clarity UI where we can manage Update Manager (VUM) and our vSAN stack within the modern interface."
"Stable and secure management console for virtual environments, with a diligent technical support team."
"The solution is easy to use, user-friendly interface and has high availability features. When comparing it to other solutions it is more robust."
"The scalability of the solution is good. You can scale up to maximum levels."
"Basic hypervisor functions with HA."
"The virtualization is set by itself. vSphere is the best way to have a non-host based fixed solution. We always try to find an agnostic environment where we can restore agnostics or just say, "I need resources, capacity." That's why VMware vSphere in particular, has been the best in the past but now also with the evolution of their product. Nowadays, you don't have to use any STEM infrastructure anymore because the bandwidth and the land speeds are getting steeper."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"I would love to see other options for connecting VMs to large data storage."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"VMware vSphere is perfect for the on-premise solution, but we are in the cloud era, so I think maybe VMware needs to invest more in the cloud and the microservice chain. It would be better if VMware offered more cloud solutions and continuous applications."
"There needs to be more integration overall. That would be quite helpful."
"We'd always like to see the price drop, but I realize that may not be realistic."
"The solution could improve by having more integration."
"In the next release, I would love to have Java as a service, platform as a service, and container as a service."
"I would like to see AI in future releases."
"I would like to see more software as a service solutions."
"The way that vSphere manages the alerts on the data machine is not easy to configure."
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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