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.
"We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from one server to another."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"The solution has good scalability."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"The most valuable feature is being able to do checkpoints then roll back to the checkpoint because that's what we need to test the software. We're testing the installation and then we roll it back and retest it."
"The free ESXi hypervisor was a great way to get started, as it allowed us to introduce virtual machines so that users could start to experience the advantages."
"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."
"It is very stable and scalable, and implementation is straightforward as well."
"The solution has high availability."
"This product is useful for running multiple virtual machines from a single server so that people can utilize the hardware resources in their organization. Its ability for backups is also valuable. In case of a disaster, you can recover the entire server from the images. It is easy to use. In terms of features, whatever they are providing is more than sufficient for us. We are not exploiting this product up to a hundred percent."
"I use the ESXi a lot for my users to create their own templates and control their own VMs without my interaction."
"The most valuable feature is the VDP Backup solution."
"For me, the most valuable feature would be the EVC, but EVC has been changed to be per-VM which makes it possible for us to migrate the VMs to cloud and not take into account what hardware they're running on. Also, a big improvement from the previous version is that I'm now able to schedule backup for the VCSA. That is, in my opinion, a huge improvement. The last thing that I think is really great is, I'm not able to boot the OS and not the entire server. That's going to save me a lot of time."
"If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"There is a problem with high-availability if the load is too high."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"It needs to improve compatibility with third party software."
"Integration with different platforms could be improved."
"Although vSphere is a nearly perfect product, it does need a little improvement. Datacenter and Cluster structure should be mixed so that the management of clusters would be easier."
"An improvement could be allowing a "dark mode" for the interface. I think the HTML5 client is a little bit hard to read. It's all white. It's a little bit bright on the eyes. A lot of us IT guys view in the dark."
"It is not easy to upgrade VMware vSphere from an old version to a new version."
"The monitoring is not good in vSphere, many times you have latency or you cannot find what you want. The events should be improved."
"The one area where I would love to see an improvement is the HTML5 client. It's great, but it could get better."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"An improvement could be in terms of keeping up with the upgrades. The upgrades could be set in an automated way so that the newer features don't require you to manually update, or you get an option to update automatically. This would be a useful enhancement."
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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