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."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"I think the cluster environment is a good feature of Hyper-V because, if something happens, then it will automatically move to some other mode. This is a great feature of the solution."
"The implementation process is simple."
"Live migration, SMB3."
"Its DR facility is good. Within a moment, data can be retrieve from another physical location over the Internet. The speed to recover data is good."
"It is easy to use."
"The most important feature is the ability to balance the servers with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). It is a very useful feature and should be mandatory for vSphere to have but it is only available in the enterprise edition. It should be available in all versions."
"We have seen a performance boost because we have been able to more dynamically allocate either memory or processors."
"It is a powerful solution that enables us to take a snapshot and clone any version of machine."
"It is a very dependable solution. Its performance is very good, and it is also easy to manage and implement."
"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 virtualization, the remote management user interface, and the web console are most valuable."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"Microsoft tech support is horrible."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention."
"In addition, I think they should come up with a backup feature which is more product enrichment-based. It should be a full-fledged backup solution. It just is not there right now."
"Here in Egypt, we would like everything free. So if you give us the license for free, we would be thrilled."
"The reporting could be improved."
"The cost can be better."
"The solution is slower than other tools."
"Sentencing has changed a lot."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"Generally, the user interface needs to be improved for non-technical people."
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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