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.
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"I think the cluster environment is a good feature of Hyper-V because, if something happens, then it will automatically move to some other mode. This is a great feature of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"It's much more stable than other products. It is scalable and easy to implement as well."
"Since we have an internal cloud, suddenly people may require 1000 or 2000 VMS in something. We have options to analyze and make sure we have enough scalability."
"It's easy to use, and it is flexible."
"VMware vSphere has useful tools for management and support."
"The benefit of the solution is that you can create template-based servers within minutes. If you were to use a physical server, it would probably take several hours, if not a whole day, to get everything set up the way you need."
"Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature."
"It is easy to manage the solution. It is scalable and very stable."
"Technical support is very good. They are very helpful."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"There should be more stability in the updates. They had an issue with the last release."
"The technical support could improve by being a little faster."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
"The biggest room for improvement would be just simplicity. It is very intuitive, but it needs somebody with a lot of IT background."
"The VMware vSphere app is faster, compared to its web-based client. The web-based client is very slow, freezes, and is challenging to use."
"I would like to see more software as a service solutions."
"In terms of what could be improved, we do face some bugs when cloning the virtual machine - it fails sometimes."
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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