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 good for small installations."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"I like the functionality."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"being able to manage a lot of servers in one pane of glass makes things a lot simpler. Basically, a lot of things just happen in one area. You can roll things over, move things around more dynamically, without having to hit multiple systems."
"The ease of movement of these machines is the most valuable. It is very easy to move these machines between physical hosts. The fast deployment of services is another valuable feature."
"It's very transparent and independent."
"It is easy to deploy and find troubleshooting articles as well."
"I like the standard features."
"The most valuable features for me are a very easily scalable infrastructure. I can have a couple of hosts to do basic workloads. I can have a lot of hosts to do a lot of workloads. vSAN integrates my storage so I don't need an external storage SAN. I love having everything integrated in the same UI. The new HTML5 interface doesn't require any plugins anymore and it's super-fast."
"It is highly scalable. We need to scale out and up, and we can do that with vSphere. We can easily add more storage, drives, or memory."
"Security-Features; 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. Since we do have so many different departments and areas with a lot of people that need access into the solution, we can use the role-based access controls to really restrict and control who can do what, so everybody can do what they need to do, but they can't do anything else past that."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall."
"The solution’s pricing is too high and could be improved."
"It could improve the hyper-conversions."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
"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."
"The licensing costs for the solution are quite high."
"Security and patch-related items need improvement."
"Inability to get to a single hypervisor environment to support a container environment."
"The implementation of VMware vSphere is easy. For integration companies, it's easy, the final client cannot do it alone but for an implementor it's easy."
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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