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 solution has good scalability."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"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."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"The easy of use with reduced space provides a better use of infrastructure"
"As an end-user, I would say it has allowed us to have the flexibility of moving around our workloads on different machines, and not having to worry if anything is down."
"It is a single pane of glass that lets you access your hosts and VMs."
"It helps to automate the data replication and DR (disaster recovery)."
"We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"VMotion is the biggest feature. It gives us the ability to move things on the fly."
"Its stability and manageability are valuable."
"The interface is good."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"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."
"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."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"The Hyper-V management console could be improved to make it easier. It should be a little bit more granular. Various virtual switches could also be improved to make virtual desk management slightly better. The replication could be improved slightly. The checkpoints or snapshots could be improved to make it a bit more transparent to the user."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"We want to see improvement from VMware with security. We want minimal downtime. We want automation. We want to deploy more efficiently."
"The VMware vSphere app is faster, compared to its web-based client. The web-based client is very slow, freezes, and is challenging to use."
"The solution is slower than other tools."
"Without a lot of physical RAM on the hardware, it's not very effective. The stability could be improved in cases like this."
"The solution should offer more integration capabilities."
"They need to stop pushing code out so fast."
"One of the areas creating a crash is when you are cloning."
"Sometimes you can't find items and you need to log onto different physical servers to do technical tasks. I don't fully understand why this is the case."
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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