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 of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"It helps us build servers."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"The performance is very good."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"Stable and secure management console for virtual environments, with a diligent technical support team."
"It is easy to use."
"Ease-of-Use; The solution is very simple to use and to manage. Updates are simple. The biggest feature that enables the ease of use is the fact that you can update via the web interface. With a couple of clicks, the update is done; no manual intervention, you just click Update and it automatically reboots the server for you and you're back up and going again."
"It's extremely simple. Installing the ESXi is a piece of cake and then putting servers on there is really simple and having HA and building a cluster for our VM servers. It's very easy."
"We have seen a tremendous performance boost. From when we started this VMware engagement in 2016 until now, we have seen around a 70 percent performance boost. This is a good number."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization and the performance on the virtualization platform."
"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."
"VMware vSphere helps us in not wasting resources like we did when we were using physical servers. It changed our whole environment."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs."
"There needs to be more functionality overall in the Hyper-V manager."
"The initial setup was complex. It was nearly six years ago, but I remember it was complicated."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower."
"The price could be better. The licensing is definitely expensive and tech support is sometimes frustrating."
"There are some limitations with the solution regarding migrating."
"VMware vSphere is perfect for the on-premise solution, but we are in the cloud era, so I think maybe VMware needs to invest more in the cloud and the microservice chain. It would be better if VMware offered more cloud solutions and continuous applications."
"They should make it more efficient and stable."
"VMware vSphere could be improved with cheaper costs."
"I would like to see VMware head towards a more GPU friendly environment."
"The solution could be a bit more user-friendly."
"We stopped using a lot of cloud services. However, I see that VMware has integrated with Amazon Cloud. We will now to have to move everything to the cloud."
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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