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.
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"It's a very manageable product."
"The initial setup is not difficult at all. It is very easy."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I like that it's like a distributed rescheduler. You can move to and use VMotion as well. You can move the server and move the virtual machines around different physical servers. This makes it easier when it comes to redundancy."
"Valuable features include VHA, DRS, VMotion, and redundancy and failover; any DR situation."
"The solution's flexibility allows us to implement it widely."
"It is a very stable solution. It performs well for our requirements. It has been running for a long time, so we are very knowledgeable about this solution. It is a very well-supported solution, and it is very flexible. The expansion of its functionality is dynamic."
"The performance of VMware vSphere is good."
"I use customization to prevent any network and DNS collisions to the router."
"It is easy to deploy and find troubleshooting articles as well."
"It's not completely stable because your stack becomes bloated."
"Hyper-V serves its purpose, but some areas may not be as feature-rich as alternatives like VMware ESXi."
"Hyper-V isn't a lightweight solution like VMware. Management could be more straightforward. Even as far as disk management tools are concerned, it would be better if that could be made simpler. The same applies to performance."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"In my opinion, read the documentation carefully. If you do not, you will have problems."
"Hyper-V systems need a lot of admin effort because security updates and monthly updates require rebooting after the update."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"It is not easy to upgrade VMware vSphere from an old version to a new version."
"I recommend that VMware vSphere continue to release more features."
"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It would be highly beneficial for VMware to collaborate with local hosts and partners in countries like those in Africa to establish specific pricing that would align with the economic conditions of countries in Africa, ensuring suitability and compatibility with our consumption capabilities."
"There are some challenges around ESXi hosts — converting them into VMs."
"The support for VMware vSphere can be fast or it can be slow. Recently it has been slow, they need to decrease the wait time and quality of their support."
"There should be a bit more flexibility in terms of the hardware we can use with the product."
"There is room for improvement in Google Cloud. The reason thing there was, like, when I type something in the terminal and then immediately, I need to go to edit the certain like file for Node.js, for the server, or for Kubernetes. So I have to do it from the terminal to the editor."
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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