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 restore function of the virtual server is valuable to me."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"Hyper-V is much easier to deploy because Hyper-V is already installed inside Windows Server OS. You only need to turn on Hyper-V as a service, and then you can use it. The most convenient thing about Hyper-V is the operating system."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The solution has good scalability."
"Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"The solution is highly stable."
"The installation process is very straightforward."
"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."
"Technical support was helpful and knowledgeable."
"It is absolutely simple and efficient to manage. We can bring in people who have never been exposed to vSphere or virtualized environments and they're still able to support it from a server standpoint. The training time as well as the adoption rate, for a junior technician or somebody coming right out of college, is very good."
"It is a very dependable solution. Its performance is very good, and it is also easy to manage and implement."
"The documentation is very good."
"We use it to virtualize our server infrastructure. Virtualization has made it easier for us to manage our environment. We can manage it from location, the vSphere web client."
"I definitely like the stability, performance and ease-of-use."
"They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers."
"There is a hard limitation of 20 gigs per file with Dropbox, so you've got to overcome that by chunking the zip files into something smaller and manageable."
"I think the setup for the Virtual Network Manager could be improved."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions."
"VLAN is not very easy to configure."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"The cost and licensing can be improved."
"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."
"The pipeline feature can be improved, as it doesn't allow for specific situations."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive."
"There is room for improvement in Google Cloud. The reason thing there was, like, when I type something in the terminal and then immediately, I need to go to edit the certain like file for Node.js, for the server, or for Kubernetes. So I have to do it from the terminal to the editor."
"I would like to see the UI incorporating all of the functionality that the thick client had."
"In addition, I think some of the backup features or the prediction features can be improved."
"Without a lot of physical RAM on the hardware, it's not very effective. The stability could be improved in cases like this."
"Generally, the user interface needs to be improved for non-technical people."
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, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere report.
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