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 ease of use of Hyper-V is the most valuable feature."
"Microsoft's a good name for legacy support and solutions"
"It is stable."
"This solution is much easier to manage than a bare metal machine. It is so easy to manage something through the virtual machine."
"The solution allows us to take advantage of our physical environment."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"The solution is easy to use, user-friendly interface and has high availability features. When comparing it to other solutions it is more robust."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"Cross vendor integration is in my opinion one of the best features."
"It is easy to deploy and find troubleshooting articles as well."
"We find the solution simple and efficient to manage."
"The feature that I find very valuable is the ability to move images of virtual machines from different workspaces to other workspaces between different installations."
"VMware vSphere is user-friendly and simple."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the overall virtualization technology and the new features that allow you to move servers from one system to another."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"The management of Hyper-V could improve, there is a lot to improve in that area."
"I am using this solution with E-Notes. I heard that there will be future improvements in integration of the E-notes systems. This would be very helpful."
"ometimes a server or machine shuts down and doesn't automatically restart."
"The only issues we have had recently are with Windows updates that are built into the Windows server with Hyper-V."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"It would be great if the free version included a management tool that was a scaled-down vCenter Manager."
"It is expensive. They can improve the licensing cost for Cloud Director. They can also improve the integration with other applications and the metering feature, which is currently not flexible."
"The hardware cost is high."
"It's an expensive solution."
"These days we have an environment where we are often using clouds as well. A solution that would be a little more cloud-aware would be really helpful. I know there is a product from VMware that is more specifically for the cloud, but it would be nice if VMware Cloud Manager would be cloud-aware. It would simplify certain processes."
"The biggest pain point is probably the firmware management of the underlying hardware. It could be a lot better."
"There is still room for improvement with the HTML5 Web Client. They are working on it, as I can see on their blog. However, there is still room for improvement in the newer features that they can push into it."
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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