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 stable product."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"I think all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"The setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"The most useful features are ESXi, DRS, Auto Deploy, and the Lifecycle Manager."
"Server Virtualization is the most important feature because that helps me to utilize 100% capacity of my physical server or box. Its redundancy, uptime, or high-availability is also valuable. Storage-sharing is also valuable. In vSAN, I can utilize the maximum storage. In the physical boxes, if you don't require storage, it lies idle, but with VMware or any kind of virtualization, you can utilize the full storage."
"The scalability is good."
"The ability to to virtualize systems and run those virtual workloads with a fewer number of servers is tremendous."
"The latest innovation always comes from VMware."
"The free ESXi hypervisor was a great way to get started, as it allowed us to introduce virtual machines so that users could start to experience the advantages."
"The most valuable features for us are HA, DRS, and SDRS."
"Technical support is very good. They are very helpful."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"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."
"One of the network problems I face is I cannot introduce other security layers on top of Hyper-V as you can in VMware. When it comes to the network the VMware is more flexible than Hyper-V."
"There was a time we lost the password for the ESXi and we had to do a hardware reset. At this point, we had to fill up the ESXi from the bottom up. I am not sure if there was another solution to this problem but it took a long time."
"The installation is complex and you need to have a good understanding in regards to what you are doing when you are setting it up."
"The solution could be more stable."
"They can maybe review its price. They can also consider offering a free public version for development for a certain number of users."
"The licensing costs for the solution are quite high."
"It needs to integrate better between multiple modules."
"One of the areas creating a crash is when you are cloning."
"When I use VMware and Citrix there are conflicts."
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, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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