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 most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"It's a stable product."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"It stands out as a comprehensive and advantageous solution, providing a full package that effectively caters to our needs for managing our private cloud."
"The solution is very straightforward to implement."
"It is easy to maintain our data machines and take snapshots with the solution."
"Valuable features really depend on different projects. We are using the traditional infrastructure based on VMware vSphere. We are also using the high availability (HA) and Distributed Switch features to extend our network and switch between different hosts. The VMotion and SVMotion features are very essential for us to relocate the storage of virtual machines to different storage or vSANs. We are using VMotion and SVMotion features several times of the day. We are also using another VMware product to replicate a lot of solutions to a second replication site."
"What I like about it is being able to see my entire organization, especially with some of the newer enhanced links. All of my data centers show up in one view and I can see every server that's running. I also get performance statistics so if there are issues, major problems going on, I can see them."
"Most valuable features of vSphere 6.7, for us, at the management level would be: VCHA is a nice redundancy feature that they added in v6.7. I like the quality of life improvements with the VMFS-6 for using auto UNMAP on the data stores. And we really appreciate the improvements to the Clarity UI where we can manage Update Manager (VUM) and our vSAN stack within the modern interface."
"Since it is riding inside of a multi-hardware environment, downtime is virtually nothing."
"The product is very easy to install."
"The Hyper-V management console could be improved to make it easier. It should be a little bit more granular. Various virtual switches could also be improved to make virtual desk management slightly better. The replication could be improved slightly. The checkpoints or snapshots could be improved to make it a bit more transparent to the user."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"The live migration feature needs improvement."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"Both the price and the licensing fee are expensive, especially for our clients with a smaller workload."
"I would like to see AI in future releases."
"The installation can take a long time, they need to improve on the simplicity and length of the installation."
"When we talk about the overall private cloud stack, I would prefer for it be a lot more seamless."
"I would like them to move into having a containerized application to manage the vCenter."
"There should be more stability in the updates. They had an issue with the last release."
"The documentation could be improved. It does not help me to show the client the value of going with VMware vSphere rather than an open source or cheaper solution."
"We need to improve availability and disaster recovery in VMware vSphere."
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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