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 Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"The setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"Hyper-V can expand storage. For instance, if I have a VM running on NetApp or another platform, I can expand the storage without interrupting operations. It is useful when I need to quickly allocate more storage without causing downtime or performing maintenance tasks."
"It is definitely the toughest competitor for VMware. It easily increases memory for our virtual machines."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability of the solution."
"I think all of these improvements are going in a good direction. For me, its direction is good and I'm very satisfied with this product."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"Stability and scalability are the most valuable features of this solution."
"VMware vSphere is the best private-cloud solution."
"The most valuable features are the resilience of the solution and vMotion."
"The ability of a running VM to be quickly relocated to another hypervisor or launched at another site via replicated storage greatly reduces downtime."
"The provisioning setup of VMs is good."
"The VMware community is always there and it is a valuable resource."
"I like the standard features."
"VMware vSphere is user friendly. It is scalable and stable."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"When it comes to Hyper-V the worst thing is it's based on the Windows operating system. For the installation of Hyper-V, you're supposed to install the right operating system. For me, it's strange."
"Hyper-V serves its purpose, but some areas may not be as feature-rich as alternatives like VMware ESXi."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"We would like to see the container-based operating system launched soon for this solution."
"The solution could be cheaper and less expensive."
"The pipeline feature can be improved, as it doesn't allow for specific situations."
"The technical support is not too bad, but not the best."
"It is not easy to upgrade VMware vSphere from an old version to a new version."
"There is still room for improvement with the HTML5 Web Client. They are working on it, as I can see on their blog. However, there is still room for improvement in the newer features that they can push into it."
"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."
"In the last couple of years, the breaking apart of specific added benefits and charging license upcharges for them. That would be the only negative thing that I have to say: As a large consumer of the Hypervisor, we have a hard time justifying the cost of utilizing the extra products, especially when it's a couple of grand here and there, a couple of hundred dollars here and there. It's hard for an IT administrator or an architect to sell to upper management. When they're seeing so much ROI from the Hypervisor, it's hard to show them that there is extra value in the additional products that can be tied on top."
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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