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 virtualization aspect of the solution functions similar to VMware is one of its most valuable features…It is a stable product."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"The initial setup of Hyper-V is far easier than VMware."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from how my company uses Hyper-V for replication."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"The solution is highly stable."
"It's a very manageable product."
"It's stable."
"The technical support is good."
"VMware Workstation’s most valuable feature is virtualization technology."
"I like that it's easy to use. It's easy to deploy virtual machines. You have to insert your ISO and the image of your OS and configure it. They provide a step-by-step guide, and you have to follow it. In the end, you have to start the machine, and that's all you have to do. I liked that they synchronized the mouse, keyboard, and everything. When you finish the installation, it directly links to your laptop. This makes copying and pasting things from my laptop inside the virtual machine easy."
"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 most valuable features of the VMware Workstation solutions are the ESXi and vCenter."
"The simplicity of the deployment and the implementation, and the footprint for the hardware are some of the solution's valuable features."
"It will not harm any of the computer settings to run a specific program. For example, if a program needs a specific security policy, we don't have to use the shared configuration. We have an individual copy of Windows installed on the virtual machine, so anybody can access that. It helps us a lot."
"VMware has antivirus protection that covers the entire VM. If Microsoft could have something similar to this in Hyper-V, that would be great."
"Microsoft increased the price for this solution when adding the Storage Spaces Direct feature."
"They can hot add NICs to the VMs. However, there is still not the ability to hot add virtual processors to running VMs."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis."
"If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V."
"There are bugs, and this should be resolved by Microsoft."
"There are some storage problems which do occur in high load systems, especially SQL workloads."
"Lacks the ability to clone onto another system rather than starting from scratch."
"The solution can be expensive."
"It takes too much time to load all the plug-ins and software."
"VMware Workstation could improve the export and import of virtual machines."
"Performance could be improved, it's somewhat clunky."
"The product's integration capabilities are an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"VMware Workstation’s scalability could be improved."
"The GUI interface could be improved."
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, Nutanix AHV Virtualization and Oracle VM VirtualBox, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with VMware vSphere, VMware Fusion, KVM, Proxmox VE and VMware Player.
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