both are hyper visor from different companies.
Hyper V from microsoft and vmware.
Feature
vSphere 4.1
Hyper-V 2008 R2Bare-metal HypervisorESX/ESXiHyper-VCentralized Hypervisor ManagementVirtual Center ServerSystem Center Virtual Machine Managercross-platform hypervisor managementNoneSystem Center Virtual Machine Managervirtual machine backupVCB or 3rd party productsWindows Server Backup, System Center Data Protection Manager, or 3rd party productsHigh Availability / Failover(Via Virtual Center Server)Failover Cluster ManagerVM MigrationvMotion (Via Virtual Center Server, Enterprise Plus)Live MigrationStorage Live Migration(Via Virtual Center Server, Enterprise Plus)NoGuest OS patching/management(Via Virtual Center Server - not in next version)Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)End-to-end OS monitoringNone(via System Center Operations Manager)Host/VM level optimizationDRS (Via Virtual Center Server, Enterprise Plus)PRO (via System Center Operations Manager)Application/service monitoringNonePRO (via System Center Operations Manager)Integrated physical and virtual managementNoneSystem Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, System Center Configuration Manager