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.
"We've probably seen a 50 percent speed increase on our SQL server. Hyper-V has also significantly reduced our downtimes with faster boot-up and reboot. If we have to reboot a server, there is maybe two or three minutes of downtime. When we were on a bare-metal server, it could be five to ten minutes due to the total boot time."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"Hyper-V can expand storage. For instance, if I have a VM running on NetApp or another platform, I can expand the storage without interrupting operations. It is useful when I need to quickly allocate more storage without causing downtime or performing maintenance tasks."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"The solution is highly stable."
"The setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"Performance; We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"It has high clustering and availability features. These features are not found with other hypervisors."
"We have seen a tremendous performance boost. From when we started this VMware engagement in 2016 until now, we have seen around a 70 percent performance boost. This is a good number."
"Technical support was helpful and knowledgeable."
"We have seen an improvement in uptime. The whole hardware lifecycle process is easier."
"It's easy to use, and it is flexible."
"It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve."
"The solution is user-friendly. It is easy to convert, create, and manage systems."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"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."
"Hyper-V serves its purpose, but some areas may not be as feature-rich as alternatives like VMware ESXi."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
"The technical support is poor. We are in Australia, but we do not have the same level of support as the US and Europe."
"The management of the product demonstration is weak."
"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."
"The latest version of the solution has a few bugs."
"Generally, the user interface needs to be improved for non-technical people."
"Given that I've been using version seven, it seems that some of the bugs I faced during that version have already been addressed in subsequent updates. Although I haven't personally tested them yet, it appears that these issues have been resolved. In version seven, there was a problem with the network interface not responding due to certain configurations not being properly filtered. However, in version eight, this requirement has been minimized, so the mentioned bug is less likely to occur. Instead of solely addressing these fixes in newer versions, it might be beneficial for them to consider applying these improvements to the older versions as well. This approach could prevent users from feeling compelled to upgrade to version eight solely to avoid encountering the issue, and instead provide updates for version seven users."
"The pipeline feature can be improved, as it doesn't allow for specific situations."
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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