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 most valuable feature is being able to do checkpoints then roll back to the checkpoint because that's what we need to test the software. We're testing the installation and then we roll it back and retest it."
"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."
"The implementation process is simple."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"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 virtualization, the remote management user interface, and the web console are most valuable."
"Technical support is very good. They are very helpful."
"The performance is efficient."
"I like the standard features."
"We are able to patch our hosts during production hours with the ability to keep services running."
"The most valuable features are the resilience of the solution and vMotion."
"It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs."
"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."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"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."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"There are some challenges around ESXi hosts — converting them into VMs."
"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."
"Its price should be better. Their support should also be more customer-friendly, and they should train people like us so that we know more about the latest technologies and features. If there is some program and drive from their side to teach us, it is definitely going to help us. Pricing and support are the most important features for mid-level companies. We are not implementing this solution for big tech companies."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
"I would like to see the configuration simplified."
"I met with the lead solutions architect for vSphere, and one of the things that I really kind of sat him down on was, "What's the deal between these Custom Attributes and these Tags? What are you trying to do with that?" He said, "So here's the deal. I know that they're halfway done and we have a vision of where they're all going, but we'll get it there." That that would be a great ability, to keep all that metadata about your virtual machines inside the solution and staying with the machines."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"Generally, the user interface needs to be improved for non-technical people."
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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