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 most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The initial setup is simple. There's not much to do. We input one command or just one or two clicks on the UI. Initial setup in the Windows environment for any software is not that difficult."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"The installation process is very straightforward."
"Most valuable features are quick provisioning, High Availability, and DRS for balancing workload."
"Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature."
"It is easy to manage the solution. It is scalable and very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the VDP Backup solution."
"It's easy to use."
"You see more responsiveness, especially now with having the HTML5 client. It feels like a much snappier product."
"It's extremely simple. Installing the ESXi is a piece of cake and then putting servers on there is really simple and having HA and building a cluster for our VM servers. It's very easy."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"Hyper-V serves its purpose, but some areas may not be as feature-rich as alternatives like VMware ESXi."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"Hyper-V is hosted on OS but if your OS scratches you are in big trouble. In addition, if a host fails, automatically the machine and the virtual machine should boot from another source. Those type of features would benefit Hyper-V."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"The management of the product demonstration is weak."
"VMware vSphere needs to increase the datastore volume."
"We have had some problems setting up the monitoring with vSphere. The process could be simplified."
"The biggest pain point is probably the firmware management of the underlying hardware. It could be a lot better."
"The biggest room for improvement would be just simplicity. It is very intuitive, but it needs somebody with a lot of IT background."
"The setup is easy. However, the configuration expansion can be difficult. The full implementation took three to four days. This included the move from physical servers to virtual ones."
"The UI of VMware could use some improvements, especially in dark mode."
"The price is a big issue for us because the market is very competitive in our country, so we can't really push our VMware vSphere products because the customers will prefer to use something cheaper."
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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