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 allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The implementation process is simple."
"It is good for small installations."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"Gathering all of the hosts together to create one single pool across the enterprise is a terrific feature."
"We use it for our VDI infrastructure and managing virtual machines."
"The most valuable features are the resilience of the solution and vMotion."
"The virtualization this solution offer is very complete for the infrastructure."
"It is the number one virtualization-layer platform available, and a lot of people trust it."
"The enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need."
"Since we have an internal cloud, suddenly people may require 1000 or 2000 VMS in something. We have options to analyze and make sure we have enough scalability."
"VMware vSphere has helped us create our infrastructures and provide services for our customers."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"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."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"The pricing and technical support can be improved."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"The HR proxy is actually a little bit tricky to install and setup."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"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."
"Pricing is starting to get a little high-end."
"The container management could be improved. It's far from perfect right now."
"Sometimes it's impossible to prevent problems from happening. With vSphere, you never know where the problem is going to come from, but you will always know that there is a problem. This is the problem."
"The UI of VMware could use some improvements, especially in dark mode."
"I would like to see a more automated upgrade, where you take the other products into account, so you can upgrade the entire VMware stack from a single interface."
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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