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.
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"It is stable."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"It is good for small installations."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"It is a stable product."
"The setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"The DRS feature of this solution is a very valuable feature."
"An easy way of providing near-zero downtime services, the operation of the instances between clustered services, and providing the projected SLA for our customers."
"The most valuable features are the vMotion, the storage vMotion, the DRS, and the high availability function."
"I have found the Storage vMotion feature to be the most valuable."
"Since it is riding inside of a multi-hardware environment, downtime is virtually nothing."
"vSphere does offer quite a bit of security stuff built-in. It is nice to know that we can have the virtual machines encrypted, so that if somebody were to get a hold of any of those files, we don't have to worry about them actually being used."
"The product is very easy to install."
"It is easy to maintain our data machines and take snapshots with the solution."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"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."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"It is expensive."
"It would be highly beneficial for VMware to collaborate with local hosts and partners in countries like those in Africa to establish specific pricing that would align with the economic conditions of countries in Africa, ensuring suitability and compatibility with our consumption capabilities."
"Sometimes you can't find items and you need to log onto different physical servers to do technical tasks. I don't fully understand why this is the case."
"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 could improve the hyper-conversions."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"The price could be better."
"To manage it properly, you have to know this product really well."
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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