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 Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"It is actually very low on resources. It doesn't use many resources. It is also very easy to tailor. You can change things like the amount of memory and storage on the fly. It is very stable and reliable. I like its replication feature, which is very good. It is also very easy to move the virtual machines across push servers without any difficulty. Its performance is also very good. Now with this pandemic, a lot of workers are working from home. A lot of workers have been using laptops as their desktop computers, and they would remote into a virtual PC. There is no difficulty, and they can't tell the difference between this and the real one. It is much easier to manage."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"It's a very manageable product."
"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."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It was easy to install."
"Valuable features include VHA, DRS, VMotion, and redundancy and failover; any DR situation."
"Our customers opt for virtualization because it's cheaper and better than non-virtualized solutions. VMware is probably the best on the market now."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization and the performance on the virtualization platform."
"Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature."
"Cross vendor integration is in my opinion one of the best features."
"The easy of use with reduced space provides a better use of infrastructure"
"It provides a new environment in an expedient manner."
"The ability to to virtualize systems and run those virtual workloads with a fewer number of servers is tremendous."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"The only negative thing I heard was that the baseline price is very, very attractive relative to VMware, however, the vCenter counterpart, the thing that brings it all together, is quite pricey."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"The solution should be compatible with different systems."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"I can't speak to any missing features. It has everything I need."
"When we talk about the overall private cloud stack, I would prefer for it be a lot more seamless."
"Integration with different platforms could be improved."
"There should be a bit more flexibility in terms of the hardware we can use with the product."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"As we continue to push mission-critical workloads into vSphere, and those workloads are not readily protected at the application layer for availability, continuing to increase the size limitations on FT-protected VMs would be a great advance."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
"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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