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 initial setup is easy."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"The interface is quite good."
"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."
"I think all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from one server to another."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"The most valuable feature is the VDP Backup solution."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to revert to previous snapshots during testing of various guest and application deployments."
"I definitely like the stability, performance and ease-of-use."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"Has many good features, and is stable and reliable."
"The most valuable features are the vMotion, the storage vMotion, the DRS, and the high availability function."
"Also, the automated builds are being done through it, and we don't have to manually do it anymore. All of my AIS platforms are completely automated now with the VM suite."
"VMware vSphere is easy to scale. We haven't had any problems scaling what we're scaling now."
"Storage via SMB3."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"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."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"The solution should be compatible with different systems."
"We have our scientific network, and it's run off the university sever, and we need two servers to optimize our scientific work, such as the mathematics work. Then you have to work with Python and Java, and Microsoft isn't the best option for this kind of work"
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"We've been using vSphere on Windows 7, and it had less fluff associated with ThinApp. Currently, with Windows 10 version that we have, it adds a lot of bulk to ThinApp. We have offices spanning across Canada from the east coast to the west coast. A ThinApp that is roughly around 400 MB in size would take minutes to open up. With Windows 7, the same ThinApp used to be close to 75 to 80 MB in size. So, I'm really not happy with the extra fluff that is bundled in Windows 10. It really messes things up for us at times."
"Reducing the cost of vSphere would be an improvement."
"VMware vSphere could improve on the automation features and the ease of use of the solution in many areas, such as the interface. However, VMware is doing lots of great things."
"Its price could be better. It is expensive, and its price is a big concern."
"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."
"One of the areas creating a crash is when you are cloning."
"The one area where I would love to see an improvement is the HTML5 client. It's great, but it could get better."
"Although vSphere is a nearly perfect product, it does need a little improvement. Datacenter and Cluster structure should be mixed so that the management of clusters would be easier."
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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