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."
"It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"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."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"It helps us build servers."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem."
"The DRS feature of this solution is a very valuable feature."
"I like that it's like a distributed rescheduler. You can move to and use VMotion as well. You can move the server and move the virtual machines around different physical servers. This makes it easier when it comes to redundancy."
"Most valuable features of vSphere 6.7, for us, at the management level would be: VCHA is a nice redundancy feature that they added in v6.7. I like the quality of life improvements with the VMFS-6 for using auto UNMAP on the data stores. And we really appreciate the improvements to the Clarity UI where we can manage Update Manager (VUM) and our vSAN stack within the modern interface."
"The provisioning setup of VMs is good."
"It's easy to use and very user-friendly."
"The web console is the most valuable feature for me. Because no matter what happens with the server, I can still get to it with the web console."
"This product is useful for running multiple virtual machines from a single server so that people can utilize the hardware resources in their organization. Its ability for backups is also valuable. In case of a disaster, you can recover the entire server from the images. It is easy to use. In terms of features, whatever they are providing is more than sufficient for us. We are not exploiting this product up to a hundred percent."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"It would be good if the licensing cost of the solution could be cheaper."
"It could use a smaller learning curve."
"On the older version of VMware vSphere, possibly version four, we had a feature that allowed us to backup Ziploc machines. It has not been available in the newer version such as six or seven. I have been looking for another solution to accomplish the backups but they should bring back this plugin-type tool to allow older backup capabilities."
"The installation can take a long time, they need to improve on the simplicity and length of the installation."
"I would like to see support for endpoint virtualization."
"The pipeline feature can be improved, as it doesn't allow for specific situations."
"The solution is stable. However, it could improve by being more secure."
"The quality of support could be better."
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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