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.
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"The implementation process is simple."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"We've found the High Availability and flexibility to be important."
"being able to manage a lot of servers in one pane of glass makes things a lot simpler. Basically, a lot of things just happen in one area. You can roll things over, move things around more dynamically, without having to hit multiple systems."
"The UI is very intuitive, you don't have to spend hours before you figure it out. All in all, compared to other environments, like Hyper-V, we find vSphere a lot more user-friendly and intuitive to use."
"It is easy to deploy and find troubleshooting articles as well."
"The most valuable feature would be the slight changes they've made to VMFork instant cloning, in which they have abstracted out the parent-child relationship in cloning, in which certain features, like HA and DRS, are now usable on that parent virtual machine. That is wildly amazing and something that wasn't available until 6.7."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Production people can quickly reboot the server with ESXi Quick Boot."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"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."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"Get the HTML5 client to 100% parity to replace the Flash client."
"Stability-wise, there are some minor issues."
"They need to stop pushing code out so fast."
"The solution should be more secure."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"The initial setup could be better. It manages all the setups, but it's not very straightforward, and it takes time."
"There are occasionally bugs or errors."
"vSphere could perhaps be improved by more integration or better security."
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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