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 initial setup was very easy."
"The interface is quite good."
"It's a very manageable product."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"Valuable features include VHA, DRS, VMotion, and redundancy and failover; any DR situation."
"The most valuable feature is vSAN, as it reduces the cost of SAN storage and maintenance."
"The performance is efficient."
"Virtualised automation is a useful feature."
"It is very easy to use and very stable."
"We use the solution's vMotion feature to migrate VMs from one host to another across different environments and data centers."
"Its dynamic resource scheduling and its fault tolerance capabilities are two features that I've found to be valuable. I also like that VMware vSphere is stable, scalable, and easy to install."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"Hyper-V is hosted on OS but if your OS scratches you are in big trouble. In addition, if a host fails, automatically the machine and the virtual machine should boot from another source. Those type of features would benefit Hyper-V."
"The Hyper-V management console could be improved to make it easier. It should be a little bit more granular. Various virtual switches could also be improved to make virtual desk management slightly better. The replication could be improved slightly. The checkpoints or snapshots could be improved to make it a bit more transparent to the user."
"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."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"NSX is a product of VMware vSphere and it would be nice to see the solution have full integration capabilities with it."
"We would like to see the container-based operating system launched soon for this solution."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
"In addition, I think some of the backup features or the prediction features can be improved."
"It needs to integrate better between multiple modules."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
"The licensing costs are expensive and most of the important features require a license."
"The only improvement that is needed that come to mind are improvements in the vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations management simplicity."
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.
See our list of best Server Virtualization Software vendors.
We monitor all Server Virtualization Software reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.