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."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"The solution has good scalability."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The solution has high availability."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSphere is the ability to work in a big system infrastructure."
"You don't need too many people to manage the solution once it's up and running."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere."
"Most valuable features are quick provisioning, High Availability, and DRS for balancing workload."
"I use customization to prevent any network and DNS collisions to the router."
"The vMotion in particular I think is the most valuable because this feature provides migrations of virtual machines in case you want to run do maintenance."
"The latest innovation always comes from VMware."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"VMware has antivirus protection that covers the entire VM. If Microsoft could have something similar to this in Hyper-V, that would be great."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"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."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"Pricing is starting to get a little high-end."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"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."
"Its cost needs to be improved. It is very expensive as compared to other solutions."
"It needs to integrate better between multiple modules."
"There are some challenges around ESXi hosts — converting them into VMs."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"They can maybe review its price. They can also consider offering a free public version for development for a certain number of users."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". 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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