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.
"II prefer customers to use Hyper-V because Hyper-V is mostly integrated with Microsoft solutions."
"It makes it easier to deploy service. All service tends to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It is good for small installations."
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"The interface is quite good."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"It helps us build servers."
"We could easily move workloads from on-premises to the cloud and vice versa if we were running on-premises and cloud, which is one of the most important points in the new releases, in particular."
"Very reliable with a great community."
"The most valuable feature of vSphere is its modularity. I also like the maturity updates. It's available everywhere and almost all the data centers are using it."
"There is the simplicity of management, accessibility, and availability."
"Production people can quickly reboot the server with ESXi Quick Boot."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to manage."
"The features in VMware vSphere data recovery are excellent. Sometimes I've deleted an entire server before and was able to recover the deleted VM. I just used some command line tools and I was able to restore the deleted VM."
"The installation process is very straightforward."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"The solution is heavily reliant on Microsoft's active directory for authentication, for coordination between nodes. Therefore, it inherits all the issues that are within the active directory."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"I would like Microsoft to put more effort into the Admin Center interface and make it much easier. It is customizable, but you have to be a PowerShell expert to customize these things. That is a limitation."
"The support is good, but it's slow."
"Here in Egypt, we would like everything free. So if you give us the license for free, we would be thrilled."
"The solution needs to improve its stability."
"I'd like to get rid of the Flash Client. There are still some things we need to go in there and use it for, some plugins and other things aren't supported in the HTML5."
"I would like to see improvements in simplifying automation, cloud native deployment, administration, and fault resolution."
"There should be a bit more flexibility in terms of the hardware we can use with the product."
"The web user interface can be a bit clunky from time to time, so there may be some room for improvement in that regard."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
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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