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 solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"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 features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The interface is quite good."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"The most valuable features are the seamless HA with vMotion and being able to run vCenters in HA mode."
"The fact that we have the ability to easily scale out, and the ability to do maintenance on the underlying hardware without impacting our business applications, are important aspects."
"The most valuable feature is vSAN, as it reduces the cost of SAN storage and maintenance."
"The solution has high availability."
"Their command-line tools integrate well with other Microsoft products like PowerShell, so I can manipulate VMs using it."
"We have seen an improvement in uptime. The whole hardware lifecycle process is easier."
"The free ESXi hypervisor was a great way to get started, as it allowed us to introduce virtual machines so that users could start to experience the advantages."
"It's very transparent and independent."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"The installation is complex and you need to have a good understanding in regards to what you are doing when you are setting it up."
"The HTML 5 client has always lagged behind."
"An improvement could be allowing a "dark mode" for the interface. I think the HTML5 client is a little bit hard to read. It's all white. It's a little bit bright on the eyes. A lot of us IT guys view in the dark."
"We want to see improvement from VMware with security. We want minimal downtime. We want automation. We want to deploy more efficiently."
"I would like to see improvements in simplifying automation, cloud native deployment, administration, and fault resolution."
"It is expensive."
"The cost could always be lower."
"Customer support takes a long time to respond."
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, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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