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 solution has an easy setup."
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"The solution is highly stable."
"The interface is quite good."
"The installation was straightforward."
"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"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."
"It is a powerful solution that enables us to take a snapshot and clone any version of machine."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"You don't need too many people to manage the solution once it's up and running."
"We can slide in new resources without any impact. We can do maintenance on our clusters without any impact to applications, and we have the flexibility of migrating those workloads to other data centers, when required, in the case of data center downtime."
"It is easy to manage the solution. It is scalable and very stable."
"It's easy to use."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"I would like Microsoft to put more effort into the Admin Center interface and make it much easier. It is customizable, but you have to be a PowerShell expert to customize these things. That is a limitation."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"There's room for improvement in Hyper-V. One area I've personally encountered issues with is live migration. Sometimes during live migrations, the process gets stuck in a certain state. This can happen with replication as well. It's not necessarily a major problem, but at times, the error messages aren't very informative. They don't clearly explain why the migration failed."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"They need to stop pushing code out so fast."
"Here in Egypt, we would like everything free. So if you give us the license for free, we would be thrilled."
"As far as the web client goes, one of the frustrating things is that it's dependent on different browsers. One day it may work with only a given browser or there may be issues with Flash. So I look forward to being able to use the HTML 5 client."
"I would like more Amazon stuff inside of VMware."
"I would like to see a more automated upgrade, where you take the other products into account, so you can upgrade the entire VMware stack from a single interface."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"They can maybe review its price. They can also consider offering a free public version for development for a certain number of users."
"In future releases, I would like to see less pricing. The license can be improved."
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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