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 is much easier to deploy because Hyper-V is already installed inside Windows Server OS. You only need to turn on Hyper-V as a service, and then you can use it. The most convenient thing about Hyper-V is the operating system."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"The initial setup is simple. There's not much to do. We input one command or just one or two clicks on the UI. Initial setup in the Windows environment for any software is not that difficult."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"Hyper-V improved the infrastructure drastically, not only from a performance perspective but from a control/administration view as well."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"The most valuable features are ease of use, and it gets the job done in a straightforward manner."
"We have the possibility to move workloads to different locations."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is the ease of deployment. It's also user-friendly and has been on the market for more than a decade, so it's a leading technology in hypervisor solutions."
"We use it for our VDI infrastructure and managing virtual machines."
"We find the solution simple and efficient to manage."
"It is highly scalable. We can add new hardware and expand the infrastructure easily."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V."
"VMware has antivirus protection that covers the entire VM. If Microsoft could have something similar to this in Hyper-V, that would be great."
"The solution should be compatible with different systems."
"In general, based on my little experience with Hyper-V, I see a lot of obstacles. I think it falls behind the other competitors."
"We have our scientific network, and it's run off the university sever, and we need two servers to optimize our scientific work, such as the mathematics work. Then you have to work with Python and Java, and Microsoft isn't the best option for this kind of work"
"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."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"From my point of view, my advice is to design the solution properly the first time."
"I would like to see a little bit more visibility regarding errors. When an error does occur, there are times where it says "Unknown error" or something to that effect, and it doesn't necessarily give you a lot of metrics. If you go online and you give a description of it, normally the VMware forums can help you find out what it is, but I'd like to see a little bit more visibility from the software itself regarding what's going on: "This went wrong, this is why.""
"It would be great if VMware could have a consolidated way of delivering this as software rather than pieces and several add-ons so that you could enjoy the product in its entirety."
"Generally, the user interface needs to be improved for non-technical people."
"If they improve on the knowledge base and documentation, it would be extremely helpful."
"The license fee could be more affordable."
"I would like to see VMware vSphere provide a centralized patch service on the VMware level, regardless of your operating systems."
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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