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 performance is very good."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"The GUI is very simple to use."
"It cuts down on hardware costs by being able to virtualize multiple hardware and multiple machines on a single piece of hardware."
"The installation process is very straightforward."
"It stands out as a comprehensive and advantageous solution, providing a full package that effectively caters to our needs for managing our private cloud."
"Since we have an internal cloud, suddenly people may require 1000 or 2000 VMS in something. We have options to analyze and make sure we have enough scalability."
"The documentation is very good."
"I think that the solution is perfect. It's the best on the market."
"It is the number one virtualization-layer platform available, and a lot of people trust it."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"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."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could be improved."
"VMware vSphere needs to increase the datastore volume."
"VMware vSphere could be improved with cheaper costs."
"They can maybe review its price. They can also consider offering a free public version for development for a certain number of users."
"Pricing is starting to get a little high-end."
"I would like to see more support regarding containers, and they need more features for them."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
"Sometimes it's impossible to prevent problems from happening. With vSphere, you never know where the problem is going to come from, but you will always know that there is a problem. This is the problem."
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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