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 stable."
"It helps us build servers."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."
"It is a stable product."
"With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"The most valuable features for me are a very easily scalable infrastructure. I can have a couple of hosts to do basic workloads. I can have a lot of hosts to do a lot of workloads. vSAN integrates my storage so I don't need an external storage SAN. I love having everything integrated in the same UI. The new HTML5 interface doesn't require any plugins anymore and it's super-fast."
"The tool makes virtualization easy. It was free, and we could profit from its GUI. It helps to manage VMs easily."
"The most valuable features are the vMotion, the storage vMotion, the DRS, and the high availability function."
"I like the capability of vMotion, DRS, high availability, and resource distribution."
"What I like about it is being able to see my entire organization, especially with some of the newer enhanced links. All of my data centers show up in one view and I can see every server that's running. I also get performance statistics so if there are issues, major problems going on, I can see them."
"Once you have everything configured, it is relatively straightforward."
"The solution is easy to use, has high performance, and good virtualization."
"The solution allows for very good virtualization."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"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."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"Hyper-V is hosted on OS but if your OS scratches you are in big trouble. In addition, if a host fails, automatically the machine and the virtual machine should boot from another source. Those type of features would benefit Hyper-V."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"In future releases, I would like to see less pricing. The license can be improved."
"Reducing the cost of vSphere would be an improvement."
"The quality of support could be better."
"The Web Client is too slow."
"Pricing is starting to get a little high-end."
"I would like to see more support regarding containers, and they need more features for them."
"Here in Egypt, we would like everything free. So if you give us the license for free, we would be thrilled."
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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