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.
"Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"It's a stable product."
"Ease of support is one of the main features that we have with it. We're able to take Snapshots before doing updates to make it easy to roll back if something does happen to go wrong."
"It affords us different views of the VMs created by vSphere so we can control them better."
"The roadmap for the product itself covers all of the features that we are looking for."
"Vmware vSphere is the benchmark of the visualization market."
"It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve."
"It is a powerful solution that enables us to take a snapshot and clone any version of machine."
"The solution saves cost."
"The web console is the most valuable feature for me. Because no matter what happens with the server, I can still get to it with the web console."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"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."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"They can lower the price of its license."
"There should be a bit more flexibility in terms of the hardware we can use with the product."
"The solution should offer more integration capabilities."
"The solution could be more stable."
"The ability to run ARM based VMs on an x86 platform for testing purposes. With the growing use of SBCs running on ARM architectures for IoT devices, it would be very useful if developers could build and deploy VMs running operating systems like Raspbian used on Raspberry Pi devices on their existing x86 ESXi environments. Even if this is not possible through some form of emulation, the ability to add ARM hypervisors to vSphere environments would be very useful. This will enable more rapid development cycles for customers just getting started with IoT but already existing vSphere users."
"It is expensive."
"It would be ideal if they could integrate billing software so that clients can customize it directly on the virtual machine."
"The latest version of the solution has a few bugs."
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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