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.
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"It helps us build servers."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"The performance is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"It is a powerful solution that enables us to take a snapshot and clone any version of machine."
"With VMware vSphere, it is easy to manage the scaling of our company's virtual infrastructure."
"It's a very useful solution. It's easy to set up, and it's pretty stable."
"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."
"It is easy to manage the solution. It is scalable and very stable."
"It is highly scalable. We can add new hardware and expand the infrastructure easily."
"We use the solution's vMotion feature to migrate VMs from one host to another across different environments and data centers."
"VMware Tanzu (container) is the most valuable addition because you get an efficient solution to manage the VM and container in a single pane of glass."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"Hyper-V is hosted on OS but if your OS scratches you are in big trouble. In addition, if a host fails, automatically the machine and the virtual machine should boot from another source. Those type of features would benefit Hyper-V."
"The only negative thing I heard was that the baseline price is very, very attractive relative to VMware, however, the vCenter counterpart, the thing that brings it all together, is quite pricey."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"One problem that needs fixing is when we run the backup for the servers, the servers become inaccessible to everybody on-site while it is creating a snapshot."
"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."
"The improvement is more from a licensing perspective rather than from a feature functionality perspective. There could be more flexibility and fewer model options to make it easier to sell. Today, there are so many different options available, and sometimes, it is not really clear which one is the right version or the right model to propose."
"The solution could be more stable."
"One of the areas creating a crash is when you are cloning."
"The biggest thing to improve is to have more self-service in the portals. I would like to receive more help through the web interface."
"The cost can be better."
"I’d like to see a better web console or rather, transform the web console in a real single pane of glass for the whole infrastructure instead of having to go for vRealize Ops Manager."
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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