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 installation was straightforward."
"My understanding is it's easy to set up."
"The ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"The implementation process is simple."
"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."
"I find the ease of use the most valuable asset of the solution."
"The most valuable features are that it's stable, easy to use, and it's flexible."
"Ease-of-Use; The solution is very simple to use and to manage. Updates are simple. The biggest feature that enables the ease of use is the fact that you can update via the web interface. With a couple of clicks, the update is done; no manual intervention, you just click Update and it automatically reboots the server for you and you're back up and going again."
"It's easy to use, and it is flexible."
"The solution has high availability."
"It is the number one virtualization-layer platform available, and a lot of people trust it."
"The virtualization, the remote management user interface, and the web console are most valuable."
"The solution is also very simple and efficient to manage. Features that have made it simple and easy to manage include the newer VAMI for the V-center appliance, it's very easy to see what version we are at, and very easy to upgrade to the next version. The fact that we can now use VCHA at the appliance level just decreases our chance of having an outage because so many of our customers rely on the API interface for V-center."
"The most valuable feature is vSAN, as it reduces the cost of SAN storage and maintenance."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"Hyper-V could benefit with improvements to their management interface."
"We have our cluster connected to a Dell EMC VNX (SAN). The Hyper-V nodes are on Cisco UCS blades, and everything is interconnected via fiber. I attempted to use a virtual Fibre Channel connection to present a SAN volume to a VM but was not able to make that work."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"Status and availability became an issue and need."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"There are some limitations with the solution regarding migrating."
"They need to stop pushing code out so fast."
"In the last couple of years, the breaking apart of specific added benefits and charging license upcharges for them. That would be the only negative thing that I have to say: As a large consumer of the Hypervisor, we have a hard time justifying the cost of utilizing the extra products, especially when it's a couple of grand here and there, a couple of hundred dollars here and there. It's hard for an IT administrator or an architect to sell to upper management. When they're seeing so much ROI from the Hypervisor, it's hard to show them that there is extra value in the additional products that can be tied on top."
"The solution’s pricing is too high and could be improved."
"The technical support is poor. We are in Australia, but we do not have the same level of support as the US and Europe."
"I would like to see more support regarding containers, and they need more features for them."
"There is still room for improvement with the HTML5 Web Client. They are working on it, as I can see on their blog. However, there is still room for improvement in the newer features that they can push into it."
"We stopped using a lot of cloud services. However, I see that VMware has integrated with Amazon Cloud. We will now to have to move everything to the cloud."
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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