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 simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"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."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"Hyper-V can expand storage. For instance, if I have a VM running on NetApp or another platform, I can expand the storage without interrupting operations. It is useful when I need to quickly allocate more storage without causing downtime or performing maintenance tasks."
"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."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable."
"Cross vendor integration is in my opinion one of the best features."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization and the performance on the virtualization platform."
"It's not a particular feature, really, however, I can say that the solution is just easy to maintain, and makes it easy to backup all those VMs. We can easily save our data and we can deploy VM machines very fast and create the delivery of the server in a pretty simple, dynamic way."
"I have found the Storage vMotion feature to be the most valuable."
"The DRS feature of this solution is a very valuable feature."
"VMware vSphere is user friendly. It is scalable and stable."
"We use the solution's vMotion feature to migrate VMs from one host to another across different environments and data centers."
"I use the ESXi a lot for my users to create their own templates and control their own VMs without my interaction."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"Hyper-V is hosted on OS but if your OS scratches you are in big trouble. In addition, if a host fails, automatically the machine and the virtual machine should boot from another source. Those type of features would benefit Hyper-V."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Hyper-V serves its purpose, but some areas may not be as feature-rich as alternatives like VMware ESXi."
"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."
"Security and patch-related items need improvement."
"Integration with different platforms could be improved."
"There are occasionally bugs or errors."
"It is expensive."
"It would be good if the licensing cost of the solution could be cheaper."
"The VMware vSphere app is faster, compared to its web-based client. The web-based client is very slow, freezes, and is challenging to use."
"The setup is easy. However, the configuration expansion can be difficult. The full implementation took three to four days. This included the move from physical servers to virtual ones."
"The HR proxy is actually a little bit tricky to install and setup."
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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