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."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"The restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."
"I find that most of the competition is more or less the same. However, Hyper-V is, when you compare it to the older platforms like VMware, a little bit more advanced at this stage."
"Very reliable with a great community."
"This product is useful for running multiple virtual machines from a single server so that people can utilize the hardware resources in their organization. Its ability for backups is also valuable. In case of a disaster, you can recover the entire server from the images. It is easy to use. In terms of features, whatever they are providing is more than sufficient for us. We are not exploiting this product up to a hundred percent."
"It is the number one virtualization-layer platform available, and a lot of people trust it."
"It has high clustering and availability features. These features are not found with other hypervisors."
"It is very versatile. All features are beneficial and very good, especially DRS and resource pooling."
"It helps us with TCO."
"Reduces downtime."
"Tech support is very knowledgeable."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"The pricing and technical support can be improved."
"The backup site could be better. We used to face a lot of issues, and we are looking to solve that now. We are in the process of moving all the infrastructure to the cloud. It could also use more integration on the management part. We also need more integration on the monitoring sites."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"We would like to have a cloning function added to this product."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"The technical support is good. However, it could be more seamless when it comes to chat support and lower response times."
"It is expensive."
"I would like having something that works on a smaller screen, so we can get to it on our iPads and have it more touch-centric versus having to sit at a laptop."
"In addition, I think some of the backup features or the prediction features can be improved."
"I would like to see a little bit more visibility regarding errors. When an error does occur, there are times where it says "Unknown error" or something to that effect, and it doesn't necessarily give you a lot of metrics. If you go online and you give a description of it, normally the VMware forums can help you find out what it is, but I'd like to see a little bit more visibility from the software itself regarding what's going on: "This went wrong, this is why.""
"The implementation of VMware vSphere is easy. For integration companies, it's easy, the final client cannot do it alone but for an implementor it's easy."
"We want to see improvement from VMware with security. We want minimal downtime. We want automation. We want to deploy more efficiently."
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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