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 is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"It's a stable product."
"Hyper-V helps to make a replica server between two machines. It is very easy to learn."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"It is easy to manage the solution. It is scalable and very stable."
"It is easy to use."
"VMware vSphere has very good applications and services."
"It is very stable and scalable, and implementation is straightforward as well."
"The solution is scalable."
"It is very easy to use and very stable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to revert to previous snapshots during testing of various guest and application deployments."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"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."
"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."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"The one area where I would love to see an improvement is the HTML5 client. It's great, but it could get better."
"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."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"They can lower the price of its license."
"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."
"The way that vSphere manages the alerts on the data machine is not easy to configure."
"VMware vSphere could be more secure and well-known to everyone."
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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