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 is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"The restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"It helps us build servers."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"It is good for small installations."
"It's very transparent and independent."
"vSphere brings the features required for an enterprise class system with a lot of supporting components: An intuitive user experience that simplifies and helps operational management."
"The most valuable feature is vSAN, as it reduces the cost of SAN storage and maintenance."
"Technical support is quite good and very responsive."
"It is the number one virtualization-layer platform available, and a lot of people trust it."
"Performance; We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"The fact that vSphere is an on-premise solution is beneficial for the user. It's easier to manage the infrastructure. It's more straightforward to scale and configure virtual machines."
"VMware vSphere is easy to scale. We haven't had any problems scaling what we're scaling now."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"I would love to see other options for connecting VMs to large data storage."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"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."
"We would like to see the container-based operating system launched soon for this solution."
"I would like having something that works on a smaller screen, so we can get to it on our iPads and have it more touch-centric versus having to sit at a laptop."
"Stability and manageability need improvement."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"I would like to see improvements in simplifying automation, cloud native deployment, administration, and fault resolution."
"When we talk about the overall private cloud stack, I would prefer for it be a lot more seamless."
"Inability to get to a single hypervisor environment to support a container environment."
"The licensing costs are expensive and most of the important features require a license."
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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