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.
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"What I like about it is being able to see my entire organization, especially with some of the newer enhanced links. All of my data centers show up in one view and I can see every server that's running. I also get performance statistics so if there are issues, major problems going on, I can see them."
"It cuts down on hardware costs by being able to virtualize multiple hardware and multiple machines on a single piece of hardware."
"The documentation is very good."
"This solution is very stable. It's scalable and simple to set up."
"Performance; We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"The solution can scale well."
"It is very easy to use and very stable."
"The ability to monitor resource utilization."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"Hyper-V's management platform falls short in terms of scalability, especially when handling multiple Hyper-V servers. VMware has a central console to pull in all your VM servers, so you can easily manage them all through one console. You can manage servers in Hyper-V's admin centers, but it's not as scalable. It's doable with a couple of Hyper-V servers, but it becomes harder to manage when you get over two or three Hyper-V servers."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"The solution is stable. However, it could improve by being more secure."
"Reporting on vCenter needs to be improved."
"The cost could always be lower."
"The management could be simplified for base-level customers, but of course, it would be difficult to match all customer needs."
"There are some limitations with the solution regarding migrating."
"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."
"One problem that needs fixing is when we run the backup for the servers, the servers become inaccessible to everybody on-site while it is creating a snapshot."
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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