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.
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"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."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"Hyper-V deployment is very user-friendly. It supports partial scripting and offers a UI for a smooth experience. There's also PowerShell scripting available for advanced users."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"The flexibility and API are the most valuable features. It helps us be able to integrate with other systems and then push data easily."
"I like the capability of vMotion, DRS, high availability, and resource distribution."
"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 gives us the ability to be running over 250+ VMs on five physical hosts and in various flavours of guest OSs."
"The most valuable feature of the solution would be the basic feature of server virtualization, we use it everywhere."
"VMotion is the biggest feature. It gives us the ability to move things on the fly."
"The virtualization, the remote management user interface, and the web console are most valuable."
"In terms of overall features, vSphere's stability stands out on top. Not only is it highly stable, but we're also able to have a quick backup server on standby."
"Technical support is helpful and always available."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"The only negative thing I heard was that the baseline price is very, very attractive relative to VMware, however, the vCenter counterpart, the thing that brings it all together, is quite pricey."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"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 support for the latest version could be improved."
"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."
"VMware vSphere needs to increase the datastore volume."
"The solution could be cheaper and less expensive."
"There needs to be more integration overall. That would be quite helpful."
"It would be ideal if they could integrate billing software so that clients can customize it directly on the virtual machine."
"Both the price and the licensing fee are expensive, especially for our clients with a smaller workload."
"Higher cost than other similar 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, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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