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.
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"The setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"The product is easy to manage. It improves our VM management."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"Stability and scalability are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The stability of VMware vSphere is very good. It has high resiliency, it is one of the best solutions on the market."
"I like stability and the organization of the different functions into the I#M feature which is also quite useful, quite stable."
"It's easy to use, and it is flexible."
"The virtualization this solution offer is very complete for the infrastructure."
"I think that the solution is perfect. It's the best on the market."
"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 features for us are DRS, VMotion, and, of course, some of the analytics that we were able to define to quantify our workloads and tell us how we are able to make our data center more efficient."
"An improvement I suggest is having more guest operating systems."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"It would be nice if it was turned into its own product because that's the problem with it. It doesn't have a single place where you can manage things. You have to go into all different screens to be able to configure it. And then you have no idea what the performance is. It's really just a feature added to Windows, and Microsoft does not really have anything that pulls it all together well. Compared to VMware, it does not have everything collaborate on one screen."
"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 technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"My biggest suggestion would be some kind of a mechanism - and it's almost an AI-type thing, a Siri/Cortana - for where to find how to do certain things. If there was the ability to just type in a basic question and say, "How do I change the VM settings for this?" and it could bring me right there, that would be really awesome."
"It would be nice if it had auto-scaling, no need to select CPU or select database size. Let it auto-scale, let it use the features that VMware has, instead of having to preselect."
"The cost could always be lower."
"VMware vSphere could be more secure and well-known to everyone."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"There could be an inbuilt dashboard for reporting purposes."
"The integration with containers should be addressed."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". 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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