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.
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"I like that Hyper-V comes for free with Windows Server. You don't need to buy the license, and you only have to pay for the management aspect in System Center."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"Hyper-V improved the infrastructure drastically, not only from a performance perspective but from a control/administration view as well."
"Performance; We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"vMotion is one of the most useful features, which helps to provide both flexibility and High Availability. With new versions of vSphere and vCenter, it is still improving (e.g., vMotion across vCenter Servers and virtual switches)."
"We've found the High Availability and flexibility to be important."
"VMware vSphere is user friendly. It is scalable and stable."
"The solution is easy to use, user-friendly interface and has high availability features. When comparing it to other solutions it is more robust."
"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."
"The virtualization is set by itself. vSphere is the best way to have a non-host based fixed solution. We always try to find an agnostic environment where we can restore agnostics or just say, "I need resources, capacity." That's why VMware vSphere in particular, has been the best in the past but now also with the evolution of their product. Nowadays, you don't have to use any STEM infrastructure anymore because the bandwidth and the land speeds are getting steeper."
"The visibility that we have of our VMs is also important. What's being applied? Who has management of them? Laying it out in a virtual environment allows us customization for our students. We're able to respond to the students' needs much more quickly than we could in a physical environment."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"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."
"Hyper-V could improve by making it easier to manage."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"The interface could be more user friendly. In addition, the documentation and security could use improvement."
"When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention."
"It would be great if VMware could have a consolidated way of delivering this as software rather than pieces and several add-ons so that you could enjoy the product in its entirety."
"When we talk about the overall private cloud stack, I would prefer for it be a lot more seamless."
"The way that vSphere manages the alerts on the data machine is not easy to configure."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"The pipeline feature can be improved, as it doesn't allow for specific situations."
"There are occasionally bugs or errors."
"VMware vSphere could be improved with cheaper costs."
"The challenge that we have is keeping the system up to date, as well as having the internal resources to maintain that platform. We're not an IT company, so it's challenging for us to keep the IT resources in-house."
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, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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