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.
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"Hyper-V integrates well with other Microsoft solutions."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"The setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"Hyper-V deployment is very user-friendly. It supports partial scripting and offers a UI for a smooth experience. There's also PowerShell scripting available for advanced users."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable features are stability and support."
"We have the possibility to move workloads to different locations."
"The technical support is good and they are available over the internet."
"The most valuable feature is being able to VMotion and migrate easily, moving machines around on the host. I know DRS will take care of a lot about that, but there's still some manual intervention here and there, so the flexibility of it has been really good."
"Using vSphere we have virtualized over one thousand servers and this gave us management, cost and datacenter space advantages."
"The installation process is very straightforward."
"It's easy to use."
"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."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"I am using this solution with E-Notes. I heard that there will be future improvements in integration of the E-notes systems. This would be very helpful."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"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."
"It is not easy to upgrade VMware vSphere from an old version to a new version."
"I would like to see AI in future releases."
"Its performance is an issue in version 6.5, but with the inclusion of HTML files in vSphere version 6.7, the experience is seamless. In version 6.7, VMware has included the HTML file protocol for the web browser or web console, which has changed the console's response and improved the performance. We are using the trial version of vRealize Operations. It would be nice if some of those capabilities could be included in future versions of vSphere, not as a part of vRealize Operations, but in vSphere itself. It can provide some kind of forecast about your resource consumption based on the actual workload and modeling or testing scenarios. It can give you some advice or tips for the future growth of your infrastructure."
"The initial setup could be better. It manages all the setups, but it's not very straightforward, and it takes time."
"I would like to see VMware head towards a more GPU friendly environment."
"Sometimes you can't find items and you need to log onto different physical servers to do technical tasks. I don't fully understand why this is the case."
"The installation can take a long time, they need to improve on the simplicity and length of the installation."
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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