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 solution is highly scalable."
"With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"The most valuable feature is being able to do checkpoints then roll back to the checkpoint because that's what we need to test the software. We're testing the installation and then we roll it back and retest it."
"It is stable."
"I think the cluster environment is a good feature of Hyper-V because, if something happens, then it will automatically move to some other mode. This is a great feature of the solution."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"vSphere does offer quite a bit of security stuff built-in. It is nice to know that we can have the virtual machines encrypted, so that if somebody were to get a hold of any of those files, we don't have to worry about them actually being used."
"Technical support is very good. They are very helpful."
"It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve."
"The most valuable feature is being able to VMotion and migrate easily, moving machines around on the host. I know DRS will take care of a lot about that, but there's still some manual intervention here and there, so the flexibility of it has been really good."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"Using vSphere we have virtualized over one thousand servers and this gave us management, cost and datacenter space advantages."
"Its DR facility is good. Within a moment, data can be retrieve from another physical location over the Internet. The speed to recover data is good."
"I like the standard features."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"When it comes to Hyper-V the worst thing is it's based on the Windows operating system. For the installation of Hyper-V, you're supposed to install the right operating system. For me, it's strange."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"On Vista, there should be a lot more new features. We would like to see more security features to harden our environment in the future."
"The solution is slower than other tools."
"The biggest pain point is probably the firmware management of the underlying hardware. It could be a lot better."
"I can't speak to any missing features. It has everything I need."
"It could be more scalable."
"Where I think there is room for improvement is in the HTML5 interface in vCenter. What it lacks, for me, is integrating to VMware's other products, especially NSX."
"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"VMware vSphere is perfect for the on-premise solution, but we are in the cloud era, so I think maybe VMware needs to invest more in the cloud and the microservice chain. It would be better if VMware offered more cloud solutions and continuous applications."
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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