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 solution is very user-friendly."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"Most valuable features are quick provisioning, High Availability, and DRS for balancing workload."
"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."
"Basic hypervisor functions with HA."
"One of the things I like with the web client, versus the thick client, is that we're able to access all the vCenters that we manage. With the thick client, you have to log in to one vCenter at a time."
"We have seen an improvement in uptime. The whole hardware lifecycle process is easier."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the overall virtualization technology and the new features that allow you to move servers from one system to another."
"The tool comes with scale-out capabilities. Deploying new infrastructure became much quicker, saving significant time previously spent sourcing hardware for each installation. It also has the ability to downscale on rack spaces, reducing the number of rack units needed to accommodate our servers."
"VMware vSphere allows you to run multiple virtual machines."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization 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."
"VMware has amped up how frequently they release new versions and that adds instability to a stable environment."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
"The container management could be improved. It's far from perfect right now."
"Both the price and the licensing fee are expensive, especially for our clients with a smaller workload."
"They need to further develop graphics virtualization."
"I would like to see the configuration simplified."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"The price could be better."
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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