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's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product."
"One of the most valuable features of Hyper-V is ease to use."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"The performance is very good."
"It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"The built-in encryption of vSphere really helps us to secure our customers, especially customers in the medical field who need to be HIPAA compliant. Being able to encrypt the VM itself helps out a ton."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"I like the standard features."
"VMware vSphere is easy to scale. We haven't had any problems scaling what we're scaling now."
"The GUI is very simple to use."
"It's easy to use and very user-friendly."
"Security-Features; vSphere does offer quite a bit of security stuff built-in. It is nice to know that we can have the virtual machines encrypted, so that if somebody were to get a hold of any of those files, we don't have to worry about them actually being used. Since we do have so many different departments and areas with a lot of people that need access into the solution, we can use the role-based access controls to really restrict and control who can do what, so everybody can do what they need to do, but they can't do anything else past that."
"Once you have everything configured, it is relatively straightforward."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"The backup site could be better. We used to face a lot of issues, and we are looking to solve that now. We are in the process of moving all the infrastructure to the cloud. It could also use more integration on the management part. We also need more integration on the monitoring sites."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"Improvements could be made to the configuration of the solution."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"The ability to run ARM based VMs on an x86 platform for testing purposes. With the growing use of SBCs running on ARM architectures for IoT devices, it would be very useful if developers could build and deploy VMs running operating systems like Raspbian used on Raspberry Pi devices on their existing x86 ESXi environments. Even if this is not possible through some form of emulation, the ability to add ARM hypervisors to vSphere environments would be very useful. This will enable more rapid development cycles for customers just getting started with IoT but already existing vSphere users."
"The performance of the solution could be better and there could be an extra level of security."
"The solution should offer more integration capabilities."
"In the past, little changes have broken things in vSphere. Going from 6.0, which worked perfectly fine on the Mac Pro, there were certain changes in hardware drivers, when 6.5 came out. Some were no longer present or had been deprecated. As a result, it didn't work on the Mac Pro anymore, which was business critical."
"Stability and manageability need improvement."
"The biggest room for improvement would be just simplicity. It is very intuitive, but it needs somebody with a lot of IT background."
"Sentencing has changed a lot."
"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."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 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 "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". 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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