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 powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"The installation was straightforward."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The solution is highly stable."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"Technical support is helpful and always available."
"The virtualization, the remote management user interface, and the web console are most valuable."
"We find the solution simple and efficient to manage."
"The interface is good."
"The stability of the solution is excellent."
"The most valuable feature would be enhanced, what we call, Linked Mode to link our disaster recovery site to our primary site across different vCenters, without being required to be broken apart. Meaning, we have identity management and the actual vCenter servers split. We can actually do embedded now, thanks to vSphere 6.7."
"I use customization to prevent any network and DNS collisions to the router."
"I definitely like the stability, performance and ease-of-use."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"One of the network problems I face is I cannot introduce other security layers on top of Hyper-V as you can in VMware. When it comes to the network the VMware is more flexible than Hyper-V."
"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 is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"The Web Client is too slow."
"Integration with different platforms could be improved."
"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"I do not find it to be simple and efficient to manage. The tools, the interface to manage it, are a pain. In the latest version, they moved us to web-only, the Web Client and it's terrible. It's slow. It crashes. It's annoying. I used the Web Client in the older version and was happy. I would go back to the regular thick client but I don't have that option anymore, so I am always fighting it."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"I would like to see more software as a service solutions."
"Reducing the cost of vSphere would be an improvement."
"An improvement could be in terms of keeping up with the upgrades. The upgrades could be set in an automated way so that the newer features don't require you to manually update, or you get an option to update automatically. This would be a useful enhancement."
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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