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.
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"One of the most valuable features of Hyper-V is ease to use."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"I like the functionality."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"Hyper-V deployment is very user-friendly. It supports partial scripting and offers a UI for a smooth experience. There's also PowerShell scripting available for advanced users."
"Production people can quickly reboot the server with ESXi Quick Boot."
"The redundancy, the failover, the ability to stay up and running 24/7, all the various tools that are in there, high-availability, DRS, are very critical to us."
"VMware vSphere is the best private-cloud solution."
"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."
"We are able to increase the density of the virtualized servers and, with the increased density we have a lot of page sharing as well as memory sharing."
"There are no issues with the level of scalability you can achieve."
"Technical support is very good. They are very helpful."
"It is very stable and scalable, and implementation is straightforward as well."
"I think the console could use some improvement for the backups."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"I think the pricing could be lower, and the technical support could be improved."
"I'd like to see a little bit more integration for VDI. I think that Composer servers, security servers, broker servers with connections, I'm not sure they are necessary at this point. Perhaps they could have a lot of those functions baked directly into the hypervisor. It seems to me that if the hypervisor is scalable and flexible enough, that the processor and compute can handle all of that. Maybe we eliminate those other components for VDIs and have more mixed workloads: server workloads and desktop workloads all in the same hypervisor."
"The license fee could be more affordable."
"I would like to see DRS for the GPU machines."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"I do not find it to be simple and efficient to manage. The tools, the interface to manage it, are a pain. In the latest version, they moved us to web-only, the Web Client and it's terrible. It's slow. It crashes. It's annoying. I used the Web Client in the older version and was happy. I would go back to the regular thick client but I don't have that option anymore, so I am always fighting it."
"The hardware cost is high."
"Technical support is not that great. It is too slow."
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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