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.
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"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."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"The installation was straightforward."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"VMware vSphere is a very stable product."
"You see more responsiveness, especially now with having the HTML5 client. It feels like a much snappier product."
"The tool provides 99.99% uptime."
"It has allowed us to be more resilient to infrastructure and hardware failure, reduced hardware costs, and decreased recovery time from failures."
"The most valuable feature is vSAN, as it reduces the cost of SAN storage and maintenance."
"The most valuable feature is the VDP Backup solution."
"VMware vSphere is user friendly. It is scalable and stable."
"The free ESXi hypervisor was a great way to get started, as it allowed us to introduce virtual machines so that users could start to experience the advantages."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention."
"Both the price and the licensing fee are expensive, especially for our clients with a smaller workload."
"We stopped using a lot of cloud services. However, I see that VMware has integrated with Amazon Cloud. We will now to have to move everything to the cloud."
"Inability to get to a single hypervisor environment to support a container environment."
"The vSphere Client always feels slow, and/or like it doesn't keep up with what I'm trying to do. So I usually use the thick client most of the time."
"An area for improvement is that when comparing VMware to Nutanix, Nutanix has higher availability, like clustering for virtual machines. That is a good idea and VMware could profit from something like that for higher availability installations."
"The container management could be improved. It's far from perfect right now."
"The biggest issue with stability is the SSO. That is still an issue as far as integrating it with Active Directory, and any large scale of it."
"The solution should offer more integration capabilities."
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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