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 features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"It's a very manageable product."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"The installation was straightforward."
"The solution is highly stable."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"The scalability has been good."
"The features in VMware vSphere data recovery are excellent. Sometimes I've deleted an entire server before and was able to recover the deleted VM. I just used some command line tools and I was able to restore the deleted VM."
"Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature."
"VMware vSphere has plenty of features."
"The technical support is good and they are available over the internet."
"It is fairly easy to use and has enhanced security."
"It's a very nice tool to be able to reduce your footprint, consolidate servers, and accumulate several servers in a high-density configuration."
"The fact that vSphere is an on-premise solution is beneficial for the user. It's easier to manage the infrastructure. It's more straightforward to scale and configure virtual machines."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"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."
"When it comes to Hyper-V the worst thing is it's based on the Windows operating system. For the installation of Hyper-V, you're supposed to install the right operating system. For me, it's strange."
"Hyper-V isn't a lightweight solution like VMware. Management could be more straightforward. Even as far as disk management tools are concerned, it would be better if that could be made simpler. The same applies to performance."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"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."
"An improvement could be allowing a "dark mode" for the interface. I think the HTML5 client is a little bit hard to read. It's all white. It's a little bit bright on the eyes. A lot of us IT guys view in the dark."
"I would like to see more software as a service solutions."
"The biggest pain point is probably the firmware management of the underlying hardware. It could be a lot better."
"The support is good, but it's slow."
"They should make it more efficient and stable."
"The technical support could improve by being a little faster."
"There are certain tools the can't run in parallel and occasionally, in those instances, we have trouble migrating customers from one source to our data center."
"The management could be simplified for base-level customers, but of course, it would be difficult to match all customer needs."
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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