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's a very manageable product."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"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 product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"It provides a new environment in an expedient manner."
"The performance is efficient."
"It gives us the ability to be running over 250+ VMs on five physical hosts and in various flavours of guest OSs."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the overall virtualization technology and the new features that allow you to move servers from one system to another."
"It's a very useful solution. It's easy to set up, and it's pretty stable."
"VMware vSphere is the best private-cloud solution."
"In the past, we struggled with VM encryption. We couldn't encrypt the virtual machines with older versions of vSphere without some kind of third-party tool. Now, with 6.7, it's all in the application itself, in vSphere. We no longer have to procure additional products to meet that requirement. We can just do it on the fly, and pass our audit with no issues."
"The easy of use with reduced space provides a better use of infrastructure"
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"I have found it difficult to manage more than one virtual machine."
"One problem that needs fixing is when we run the backup for the servers, the servers become inaccessible to everybody on-site while it is creating a snapshot."
"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.""
"The technical support could improve by being a little faster."
"If they improve on the knowledge base and documentation, it would be extremely helpful."
"It needs to integrate better between multiple modules."
"I’d like to see a better web console or rather, transform the web console in a real single pane of glass for the whole infrastructure instead of having to go for vRealize Ops Manager."
"The quality of support could be better."
"The cost could always be lower."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". 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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