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.
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"I like the functionality."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"It is an affordable platform."
"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."
"It helps us build servers."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"Production people can quickly reboot the server with ESXi Quick Boot."
"The solution allows for very good virtualization."
"It is very stable and scalable, and implementation is straightforward as well."
"Most valuable features are quick provisioning, High Availability, and DRS for balancing workload."
"vSphere does offer quite a bit of security stuff built-in. It is nice to know that we can have the virtual machines encrypted, so that if somebody were to get a hold of any of those files, we don't have to worry about them actually being used."
"We scale it both vertically and hortizonally. We have many data centers on it."
"VMware vSphere allows you to run multiple virtual machines."
"It stands out as a comprehensive and advantageous solution, providing a full package that effectively caters to our needs for managing our private cloud."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"Hyper-V's management platform falls short in terms of scalability, especially when handling multiple Hyper-V servers. VMware has a central console to pull in all your VM servers, so you can easily manage them all through one console. You can manage servers in Hyper-V's admin centers, but it's not as scalable. It's doable with a couple of Hyper-V servers, but it becomes harder to manage when you get over two or three Hyper-V servers."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"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."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"It could be more scalable."
"As we continue to push mission-critical workloads into vSphere, and those workloads are not readily protected at the application layer for availability, continuing to increase the size limitations on FT-protected VMs would be a great advance."
"We stopped using a lot of cloud services. However, I see that VMware has integrated with Amazon Cloud. We will now to have to move everything to the cloud."
"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"I would suggest that the tool reconsider its pricing strategy. The recent price hikes could potentially pose a problem for VMware in the future. The recent price increases, especially since Broadcom acquired them, seem excessive. There are reports of businesses experiencing massive price hikes, sometimes as much as 10-30 times higher. This is causing smaller businesses to consider exiting the space altogether."
"Not having to buy something from a third-party to scan the actual hardware components, like the hard drives and the port containers and fan speeds; not having to bolt something on and go through another vendor, would be helpful."
"If they improve on the knowledge base and documentation, it would be extremely helpful."
"I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could 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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