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 appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"The performance is very good."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"The most valuable features for us are HA, DRS, and SDRS."
"I use customization to prevent any network and DNS collisions to the router."
"Using vSphere we have virtualized over one thousand servers and this gave us management, cost and datacenter space advantages."
"We have the possibility to move workloads to different locations."
"The tool provides 99.99% uptime."
"Once you have everything configured, it is relatively straightforward."
"I use the ESXi a lot for my users to create their own templates and control their own VMs without my interaction."
"Storage via SMB3."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"Hyper-V's management platform falls short in terms of scalability, especially when handling multiple Hyper-V servers. VMware has a central console to pull in all your VM servers, so you can easily manage them all through one console. You can manage servers in Hyper-V's admin centers, but it's not as scalable. It's doable with a couple of Hyper-V servers, but it becomes harder to manage when you get over two or three Hyper-V servers."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"The UI of VMware could use some improvements, especially in dark mode."
"VMware vSphere could improve on the automation features and the ease of use of the solution in many areas, such as the interface. However, VMware is doing lots of great things."
"We have had some problems setting up the monitoring with vSphere. The process could be simplified."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"The cost could always be lower."
"Although vSphere is a nearly perfect product, it does need a little improvement. Datacenter and Cluster structure should be mixed so that the management of clusters would be easier."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"The solution’s pricing is too high and could be improved."
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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