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."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The solution is stable."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"It is good for small installations."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"We primarily use vRealize to troubleshoot any issues that may arise with our virtual machines, which is the main reason why we believe this solution is excellent."
"You don't need too many people to manage the solution once it's up and running."
"It is a very stable solution. Integration with other environments was simple to achieve."
"We are able to increase the density of the virtualized servers and, with the increased density we have a lot of page sharing as well as memory sharing."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the overall virtualization technology and the new features that allow you to move servers from one system to another."
"It's a very useful solution. It's easy to set up, and it's pretty stable."
"The fact that we have the ability to easily scale out, and the ability to do maintenance on the underlying hardware without impacting our business applications, are important aspects."
"VMware Tanzu (container) is the most valuable addition because you get an efficient solution to manage the VM and container in a single pane of glass."
"I would like Microsoft to put more effort into the Admin Center interface and make it much easier. It is customizable, but you have to be a PowerShell expert to customize these things. That is a limitation."
"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."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"If a person has never implemented the solution before, they might find the process difficult."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"One of the network problems I face is I cannot introduce other security layers on top of Hyper-V as you can in VMware. When it comes to the network the VMware is more flexible than Hyper-V."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"I would like to see a more automated upgrade, where you take the other products into account, so you can upgrade the entire VMware stack from a single interface."
"It would be ideal if they could integrate billing software so that clients can customize it directly on the virtual machine."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"I would suggest that the tool reconsider its pricing strategy. The recent price hikes could potentially pose a problem for VMware in the future. The recent price increases, especially since Broadcom acquired them, seem excessive. There are reports of businesses experiencing massive price hikes, sometimes as much as 10-30 times higher. This is causing smaller businesses to consider exiting the space altogether."
"It's inherently complex. Operating a large virtual infrastructure is not an easy task for anyone."
"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."
"I would like to see more software as a service solutions."
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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