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 replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"It's good for what it does. If you have a small or medium-scale acclimatization, it's an excellent solution."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"It's a very manageable product."
"The restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is the replica service."
"I like the functionality."
"Its stability and manageability are valuable."
"VMware vSphere has a lot of features that are valuable, such as multiple clusters, VM mobility, VDI, and virtual desktop."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vMotion."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"I definitely like the stability, performance and ease-of-use."
"The enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSphere is the ability to work in a big system infrastructure."
"It is a very dependable solution. Its performance is very good, and it is also easy to manage and implement."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"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."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"The solution is lacking in numerous features and lacks flexibility."
"Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"The solution should be more secure."
"It lacks a snapshot feature."
"When we talk about the overall private cloud stack, I would prefer for it be a lot more seamless."
"In terms of what could be improved, we do face some bugs when cloning the virtual machine - it fails sometimes."
"VMware vSphere could improve on the automation features and the ease of use of the solution in many areas, such as the interface. However, VMware is doing lots of great things."
"Archiving, exporting, and backing up need to be improved for this solution, because they're slower than expected."
"The solution could be cheaper and less expensive."
"The monitoring is not good in vSphere, many times you have latency or you cannot find what you want. The events should be improved."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 38 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 56 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 7.6, while VMware vSphere is rated 9.0. 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 "Strong performance, works well with large infrastructures but it is quite expensive". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware Workstation, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM and Citrix Hypervisor, 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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