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 restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"The interface is quite good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"It is stable."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"One of the most valuable features of Hyper-V is ease to use."
"We don't have any downtime because it was built right."
"We have the possibility to move workloads to different locations."
"We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"In the past, we struggled with VM encryption. We couldn't encrypt the virtual machines with older versions of vSphere without some kind of third-party tool. Now, with 6.7, it's all in the application itself, in vSphere. We no longer have to procure additional products to meet that requirement. We can just do it on the fly, and pass our audit with no issues."
"Tech support is very knowledgeable."
"The solution is user-friendly. It is easy to convert, create, and manage systems."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere."
"Also, the automated builds are being done through it, and we don't have to manually do it anymore. All of my AIS platforms are completely automated now with the VM suite."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"When it comes to Hyper-V the worst thing is it's based on the Windows operating system. For the installation of Hyper-V, you're supposed to install the right operating system. For me, it's strange."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"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."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"Higher cost than other similar solutions."
"Due to the fact that during the last three months there appeared some critical bugs, the virtual machine backup might be inconsistent."
"I recommend that VMware vSphere continue to release more features."
"I met with the lead solutions architect for vSphere, and one of the things that I really kind of sat him down on was, "What's the deal between these Custom Attributes and these Tags? What are you trying to do with that?" He said, "So here's the deal. I know that they're halfway done and we have a vision of where they're all going, but we'll get it there." That that would be a great ability, to keep all that metadata about your virtual machines inside the solution and staying with the machines."
"The quality of support could be better."
"It would be ideal if they could integrate billing software so that clients can customize it directly on the virtual machine."
"I would like to see DRS for the GPU machines."
"We'd always like to see the price drop, but I realize that may not be realistic."
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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