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.
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"It helps us build servers."
"With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"I like the functionality."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"There is the simplicity of management, accessibility, and availability."
"It is a powerful solution that enables us to take a snapshot and clone any version of machine."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the overall virtualization technology and the new features that allow you to move servers from one system to another."
"I use customization to prevent any network and DNS collisions to the router."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization and the performance on the virtualization platform."
"The most valuable features for us are DRS, VMotion, and, of course, some of the analytics that we were able to define to quantify our workloads and tell us how we are able to make our data center more efficient."
"The tool makes virtualization easy. It was free, and we could profit from its GUI. It helps to manage VMs easily."
"The most valuable feature is the VDP Backup solution."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"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."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"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."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"It would be nice if it was turned into its own product because that's the problem with it. It doesn't have a single place where you can manage things. You have to go into all different screens to be able to configure it. And then you have no idea what the performance is. It's really just a feature added to Windows, and Microsoft does not really have anything that pulls it all together well. Compared to VMware, it does not have everything collaborate on one screen."
"Sometimes you can't find items and you need to log onto different physical servers to do technical tasks. I don't fully understand why this is the case."
"I can't speak to any missing features. It has everything I need."
"Technical support is not that great. It is too slow."
"The documentation could be improved. It does not help me to show the client the value of going with VMware vSphere rather than an open source or cheaper solution."
"Stability and manageability need improvement."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"When it comes to cross-regional (e.g., someone in the US managing the China vSphere implementations), it can be a somewhat slow. I would recommend increasing the speed. While there has already been improvement there, I would like to see more."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
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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