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 deployment is very user-friendly. It supports partial scripting and offers a UI for a smooth experience. There's also PowerShell scripting available for advanced users."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"The solution is highly stable."
"It is actually very low on resources. It doesn't use many resources. It is also very easy to tailor. You can change things like the amount of memory and storage on the fly. It is very stable and reliable. I like its replication feature, which is very good. It is also very easy to move the virtual machines across push servers without any difficulty. Its performance is also very good. Now with this pandemic, a lot of workers are working from home. A lot of workers have been using laptops as their desktop computers, and they would remote into a virtual PC. There is no difficulty, and they can't tell the difference between this and the real one. It is much easier to manage."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The ability to to virtualize systems and run those virtual workloads with a fewer number of servers is tremendous."
"VMware vSphere has a lot of features that are valuable, such as multiple clusters, VM mobility, VDI, and virtual desktop."
"The virtualization, the remote management user interface, and the web console are most valuable."
"We use the solution's vMotion feature to migrate VMs from one host to another across different environments and data centers."
"In terms of overall features, vSphere's stability stands out on top. Not only is it highly stable, but we're also able to have a quick backup server on standby."
"VMware vSphere allows you to run multiple virtual machines."
"It provides a new environment in an expedient manner."
"Technical support is quite good and very responsive."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"The pricing and technical support can be improved."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"The solution is heavily reliant on Microsoft's active directory for authentication, for coordination between nodes. Therefore, it inherits all the issues that are within the active directory."
"It would be great if VMware could have a consolidated way of delivering this as software rather than pieces and several add-ons so that you could enjoy the product in its entirety."
"It is expensive."
"I would like to see VMware vSphere provide a centralized patch service on the VMware level, regardless of your operating systems."
"Here in Egypt, we would like everything free. So if you give us the license for free, we would be thrilled."
"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."
"The way that vSphere manages the alerts on the data machine is not easy to configure."
"Both the price and the licensing fee are expensive, especially for our clients with a smaller workload."
"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."
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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