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 initial setup is simple. There's not much to do. We input one command or just one or two clicks on the UI. Initial setup in the Windows environment for any software is not that difficult."
"The virtualized applications and real time audition of the VMA is quite a good feature."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"It helps us build servers."
"The virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable."
"The solution's technical support is the best."
"This solution's most valuable feature is its High Availability."
"The most valuable features are the resilience of the solution and vMotion."
"Vmware vSphere is the benchmark of the visualization market."
"The scalability of the solution is good. You can scale up to maximum levels."
"The main benefit of the version 6.7 is that it makes end-users able to use the interface much more effectively. They don't have to install a client on their machine, they can do it from their phone, their laptop, their tablet, any OS, anytime. It's a better experience for the end-user."
"VMware vSphere is the best private-cloud solution."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Disaster recovery capabilities are the primary choice for improvement."
"Hyper-V serves its purpose, but some areas may not be as feature-rich as alternatives like VMware ESXi."
"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."
"I would love to see other options for connecting VMs to large data storage."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"An improvement could be in terms of keeping up with the upgrades. The upgrades could be set in an automated way so that the newer features don't require you to manually update, or you get an option to update automatically. This would be a useful enhancement."
"Lacks a simplified integration with services automation."
"The improvement is more from a licensing perspective rather than from a feature functionality perspective. There could be more flexibility and fewer model options to make it easier to sell. Today, there are so many different options available, and sometimes, it is not really clear which one is the right version or the right model to propose."
"In the next release, I would like to see programming. I'd like to see a lot more about customization for people who want to customize programming API, SDK."
"As we introduce the DevOps culture, we need to make sure that the principles and tools used to support this approach can be easily integrated and interoperated with the vSphere environment with no (or less) redundancy in tools and functionality."
"The one area where I would love to see an improvement is the HTML5 client. It's great, but it could get better."
"We have had some problems setting up the monitoring with vSphere. The process could be simplified."
"The biggest pain point is probably the firmware management of the underlying hardware. It could be a lot better."
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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