We performed a comparison between Hyper-V and VMware Workstation based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions are very comparable and receive similar ratings in most categories. However, VMware Workstation users are more satisfied with the technical support they receive than are Hyper-V users.
"The Failover Clustering feature allows us to be able to make our most critical workload highly available."
"Hyper-V can expand storage. For instance, if I have a VM running on NetApp or another platform, I can expand the storage without interrupting operations. It is useful when I need to quickly allocate more storage without causing downtime or performing maintenance tasks."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"I like that Hyper-V is like a virtual environment. I like to use VMware because of the resource requirements. In Sri Lanka, most of the customers use the Hyper-V GUI. When installing the interface with the Windows version, we also install the Hyper-V feature on the server. This is because they require more features and memory. There are so many features that they have embedded in Hyper-V that are useful."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"The replication, creation, and import wizard, as well as the integration with reporting tools, are the most useful features."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"VMware Workstation’s most valuable features are backup and data transfer from one server to another."
"VMware Workstation is easy to manage and understand."
"VMware Workstation has tons of third-party support, the largest partner ecosystem. VMware works with a ton of different vendors. They have plugins for almost everything. Other hypervisors lack the flexibility that VMware Workstation offers."
"The tool’s GUI is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is an easy-to-use product."
"VMware Workstation’s most valuable feature is virtualization technology."
"The most valuable feature of the VMware Workstation is the ease to create a development environment. When you have different ongoing developments, you often need to create a lot of different development environments. With this workstation solution, you can have a development environment for all the things you develop."
"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."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"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 technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"The solution could improve by having virtual restore."
"Hyper-V needs to improve its support."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"It would be helpful if VMware Workstation included an in-built monitoring tool for monitoring things."
"VMware Workstation uses more resources like CPU and disk space, especially the CPU, which is a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"The support can be improved."
"There could be more integration with different tools."
"The interface is a little wonky and needs to be improved."
"I have had issues with the virtual network adapters in the past that has taken some time to troubleshoot."
"The product could provide the features available in Microsoft Hyper-V."
"VMware Workstation could improve the export and import of virtual machines."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 42 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 8.0, while VMware Workstation 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 Workstation writes "An easy-to-manage solution that has really good customer support compared to other market players". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, Proxmox VE, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, VMware Fusion, Proxmox VE and Oracle VM VirtualBox.
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