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 restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"It's a very manageable product."
"The DRS feature of this solution is a very valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is vSAN, as it reduces the cost of SAN storage and maintenance."
"I have found the Storage vMotion feature to be the most valuable."
"The most valuable features are that it's stable, easy to use, and it's flexible."
"The tool makes virtualization easy. It was free, and we could profit from its GUI. It helps to manage VMs easily."
"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."
"We find the solution simple and efficient to manage."
"Provides good backup to our servers."
"The backup site could be better. We used to face a lot of issues, and we are looking to solve that now. We are in the process of moving all the infrastructure to the cloud. It could also use more integration on the management part. We also need more integration on the monitoring sites."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"Hyper-V isn't a lightweight solution like VMware. Management could be more straightforward. Even as far as disk management tools are concerned, it would be better if that could be made simpler. The same applies to performance."
"There's room for improvement in Hyper-V. One area I've personally encountered issues with is live migration. Sometimes during live migrations, the process gets stuck in a certain state. This can happen with replication as well. It's not necessarily a major problem, but at times, the error messages aren't very informative. They don't clearly explain why the migration failed."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"Security and patch-related items need improvement."
"Technical support is not that great. It is too slow."
"The initial setup could be better. It manages all the setups, but it's not very straightforward, and it takes time."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
"The way that vSphere manages the alerts on the data machine is not easy to configure."
"When we talk about the overall private cloud stack, I would prefer for it be a lot more seamless."
"The solution's technical team is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Reporting on vCenter needs to be improved."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". 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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