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 installation was straightforward."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"I think all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"The scalability is good."
"As an end-user, I would say it has allowed us to have the flexibility of moving around our workloads on different machines, and not having to worry if anything is down."
"Cross vendor integration is in my opinion one of the best features."
"The most valuable features are its flexibility and the ability to move workload."
"Virtualization, VDI and application publishing are the most valuable features of VMware vSphere."
"Also, the automated builds are being done through it, and we don't have to manually do it anymore. All of my AIS platforms are completely automated now with the VM suite."
"The provisioning setup of VMs is good."
"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."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"Storage via SMB3."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"We need to improve availability and disaster recovery in VMware vSphere."
"The implementation of VMware vSphere is easy. For integration companies, it's easy, the final client cannot do it alone but for an implementor it's easy."
"They have multiple components required for the setup. It would be better to integrate it into one solution, especially for small business companies."
"Sentencing has changed a lot."
"VMware vSphere could be improved with cheaper costs."
"We want to see improvement from VMware with security. We want minimal downtime. We want automation. We want to deploy more efficiently."
"My biggest suggestion would be some kind of a mechanism - and it's almost an AI-type thing, a Siri/Cortana - for where to find how to do certain things. If there was the ability to just type in a basic question and say, "How do I change the VM settings for this?" and it could bring me right there, that would be really awesome."
"The technical support is good. However, it could be more seamless when it comes to chat support and lower response times."
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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