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 performance is very good."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"Their command-line tools integrate well with other Microsoft products like PowerShell, so I can manipulate VMs using it."
"There are no issues with the level of scalability you can achieve."
"We are able to create virtual machines and move them from one host to another, controlling the resources."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the overall good ease of use and the good interface which makes it very easy to migrate from one bare metal to another. These are the two things which I like about it."
"The most useful features are ESXi, DRS, Auto Deploy, and the Lifecycle Manager."
"Performance; We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"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."
"With the current compliance options that I have to go through, it's very nice to have a lot of the encryption built in. It checks a lot of boxes for the federal level so I don't have to either bolt something on or have something on top of it. Having it native and integrated into the system makes things much easier."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"I am using this solution with E-Notes. I heard that there will be future improvements in integration of the E-notes systems. This would be very helpful."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"I would love to see other options for connecting VMs to large data storage."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"VMware has antivirus protection that covers the entire VM. If Microsoft could have something similar to this in Hyper-V, that would be great."
"Inability to get to a single hypervisor environment to support a container environment."
"NSX is a product of VMware vSphere and it would be nice to see the solution have full integration capabilities with it."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
"Stability-wise, there are some minor issues."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Its price could be better. It is expensive, and its price is a big concern."
"We are provided with a mini dashboard that has been improved in the latest version but it still could be better. The monitoring is now available on the vCenter dashboard and the vROps has been added to the basic version that had to be purchased separately before. A complete dashboard has always been provided with some competitors, such as Nutanix."
"It would be nice if it had auto-scaling, no need to select CPU or select database size. Let it auto-scale, let it use the features that VMware has, instead of having to preselect."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 30 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 14 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "Enables the creation of secure, isolated virtual environments for running applications and allows seamless transfer of virtual machines between nodes without impacting users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers a suite of software components for virtualization including ESXi, vCenter Server, and other software". 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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