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 a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"We've probably seen a 50 percent speed increase on our SQL server. Hyper-V has also significantly reduced our downtimes with faster boot-up and reboot. If we have to reboot a server, there is maybe two or three minutes of downtime. When we were on a bare-metal server, it could be five to ten minutes due to the total boot time."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"The solution has good scalability."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"The solution is stable."
"We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"Technical support is quite good and very responsive."
"It helps to automate the data replication and DR (disaster recovery)."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"Valuable features include VHA, DRS, VMotion, and redundancy and failover; any DR situation."
"It helps us with TCO."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere."
"It is highly scalable. We can add new hardware and expand the infrastructure easily."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"Hyper-V serves its purpose, but some areas may not be as feature-rich as alternatives like VMware ESXi."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"The backup site could be better. We used to face a lot of issues, and we are looking to solve that now. We are in the process of moving all the infrastructure to the cloud. It could also use more integration on the management part. We also need more integration on the monitoring sites."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"In general, based on my little experience with Hyper-V, I see a lot of obstacles. I think it falls behind the other competitors."
"VMware vSphere does not permit hard partitioning."
"VMware has amped up how frequently they release new versions and that adds instability to a stable environment."
"Sometimes it's impossible to prevent problems from happening. With vSphere, you never know where the problem is going to come from, but you will always know that there is a problem. This is the problem."
"A fully **automatic** and lightweight Virtual Center. Another time this has a huge improvement in last releases. However, a more automatic and simple deployment is required."
"Customer support takes a long time to respond."
"Pricing is starting to get a little high-end."
"The vSphere Client always feels slow, and/or like it doesn't keep up with what I'm trying to do. So I usually use the thick client most of the time."
"It is not easy to upgrade VMware vSphere from an old version to a new version."
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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