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 helps us build servers."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"The solution is stable."
"The flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"The performance is very good."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"Most valuable features are quick provisioning, High Availability, and DRS for balancing workload."
"VMware vSphere is a stable platform. We never had any issues with VMware vSphere. Once you deploy it with a stable version of the server or the hardware, there's no issue at all."
"In terms of overall features, vSphere's stability stands out on top. Not only is it highly stable, but we're also able to have a quick backup server on standby."
"The solution is stable."
"I have found the Storage vMotion feature to be the most valuable."
"It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve."
"Virtualization, VDI and application publishing are the most valuable features of VMware vSphere."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"Storage via SMB3."
"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."
"The solution could be a bit more user-friendly."
"There are some limitations with the solution regarding migrating."
"When it comes to cross-regional (e.g., someone in the US managing the China vSphere implementations), it can be a somewhat slow. I would recommend increasing the speed. While there has already been improvement there, I would like to see more."
"In future releases, I would like to see less pricing. The license can be improved."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"The solution should offer more integration capabilities."
"The biggest problem in this solution is the incompatibility of some of the features with some of the drivers installed on servers. For example, if I want to install vSphere on an HPE server, the driver is really different from a Dell server or a Fujitsu server. I need to download different drivers and install them manually, which can be improved by VMware. They can offer a special image to match different servers. We face different problems when we install vSphere on an ESXi server and have different drivers on the storage. ESXi cannot detect different kinds of storage, and they should improve this. We updated our existing version to vSphere 7 in a private environment, but it seems that this version is not very stable. We are facing issues with restarting the host. In earlier versions, such as vSphere 6 or 6.5, we didn't have any such problems. It would be good if VMware can offer specific applications for mobiles to enable us to control the management of all servers by mobile. They should also improve the vCenter GUI because it is currently not compatible, and there are a lot of problems. Some of the options do not appear well in the browser. VMware should spend more time resolving the problems in the GUI."
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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