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 implementation process is simple."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"It's a stable product."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"I find that the Virtual Center Management, iSCSI support, and VMotion hot migration are very beneficial."
"The stability of VMware vSphere is very good. It has high resiliency, it is one of the best solutions on the market."
"Production people can quickly reboot the server with ESXi Quick Boot."
"The stability of the solution is excellent."
"The solution is easy to use, has high performance, and good virtualization."
"Vmware vSphere is the benchmark of the visualization market."
"Reduces downtime."
"It is the number one virtualization-layer platform available, and a lot of people trust it."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"In an upcoming release, they can improve by having better cloud integration. We are all moving towards the clouds and the integration is only through the Azure Stack, there should be tools built in to move the VMs natively to the cloud and infrastructure. Additionally, they could provide some form of multi-cloud integration."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"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."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
"There is definitely room for improvement and that improvement should be in the licensing and the simplicity of procuring additional licenses or additional VMware products. Right now, it's very complex."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"The installation can take a long time, they need to improve on the simplicity and length of the installation."
"There needs to be more integration overall. That would be quite helpful."
"The way that vSphere manages the alerts on the data machine is not easy to configure."
"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."
"I do not find it to be simple and efficient to manage. The tools, the interface to manage it, are a pain. In the latest version, they moved us to web-only, the Web Client and it's terrible. It's slow. It crashes. It's annoying. I used the Web Client in the older version and was happy. I would go back to the regular thick client but I don't have that option anymore, so I am always fighting it."
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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