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 is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"The implementation process is simple."
"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."
"Server Virtualization is the most important feature because that helps me to utilize 100% capacity of my physical server or box. Its redundancy, uptime, or high-availability is also valuable. Storage-sharing is also valuable. In vSAN, I can utilize the maximum storage. In the physical boxes, if you don't require storage, it lies idle, but with VMware or any kind of virtualization, you can utilize the full storage."
"I like the capability of logging into one system, then being able to shift over to another system within that single pane of glass."
"The solution is very scalable."
"It's easy to use, and it is flexible."
"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."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"The technical support is good and they are available over the internet."
"The solution is easy to use, user-friendly interface and has high availability features. When comparing it to other solutions it is more robust."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"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"
"When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention."
"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The management could be simplified for base-level customers, but of course, it would be difficult to match all customer needs."
"I would like more Amazon stuff inside of VMware."
"The technical support is not too bad, but not the best."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"In the next release, I would love to have Java as a service, platform as a service, and container as a service."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"Monitoring information could always be improved."
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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