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.
"I find that most of the competition is more or less the same. However, Hyper-V is, when you compare it to the older platforms like VMware, a little bit more advanced at this stage."
"The solution is highly stable."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"I like that Hyper-V comes for free with Windows Server. You don't need to buy the license, and you only have to pay for the management aspect in System Center."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"The most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"The connectivity is fantastic, and many functions can run together in one server. If you need to scale, we can continue to add components or modules. It's a beautiful virtual solution that has many advantages over physical hardware, where you have to use devices and wiring to connect all your projects."
"It provides a new environment in an expedient manner."
"Their command-line tools integrate well with other Microsoft products like PowerShell, so I can manipulate VMs using it."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable features are that it's stable, easy to use, and it's flexible."
"Its dynamic resource scheduling and its fault tolerance capabilities are two features that I've found to be valuable. I also like that VMware vSphere is stable, scalable, and easy to install."
"Scalability is the big advantage of it. The product itself allows us to scale on the fly as we need it, and plan for the future."
"vSphere has enabled an enterprise class virtualization environment with a central point of monitoring and management stretched over multiple datacenters (multi-site use), adding all the features of clustering for high-availability and failover, VM migration, and operations."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"Hyper-V's management platform falls short in terms of scalability, especially when handling multiple Hyper-V servers. VMware has a central console to pull in all your VM servers, so you can easily manage them all through one console. You can manage servers in Hyper-V's admin centers, but it's not as scalable. It's doable with a couple of Hyper-V servers, but it becomes harder to manage when you get over two or three Hyper-V servers."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The solution's technical team is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The solution is stable. However, it could improve by being more secure."
"There was a time we lost the password for the ESXi and we had to do a hardware reset. At this point, we had to fill up the ESXi from the bottom up. I am not sure if there was another solution to this problem but it took a long time."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
"Customer support takes a long time to respond."
"Stability-wise, there are some minor issues."
"I would like to see VDP and other features included to back up the VMs in a native manner."
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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