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 solution has good scalability."
"It is stable."
"I value the simplicity of configuration because it has worked as expected for my client."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"The most valuable feature of Hyper-V is that it's very intuitive."
"It is a great advantage for any company that is using a Microsoft Windows server."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"The product works well."
"VMware Workstation’s most valuable features are backup and data transfer from one server to another."
"I have found this product excellent for test/dev environments. This is 90% of what I use this product for."
"The tool’s GUI is very user-friendly."
"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."
"VMware Workstation allows you to run a virtual machine."
"I haven't faced any inconveniences working with this solution. It is very easy to use."
"VMware Workstation is easy to manage and understand."
"In an upcoming release, they can improve by having better cloud integration. We are all moving towards the clouds and the integration is only through the Azure Stack, there should be tools built in to move the VMs natively to the cloud and infrastructure. Additionally, they could provide some form of multi-cloud integration."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"The pricing and technical support can be improved."
"I encounter issues such as mouse cursor problems, dependencies, lagging, freezing, and unresponsiveness using Hyper-V."
"In general, based on my little experience with Hyper-V, I see a lot of obstacles. I think it falls behind the other competitors."
"The corrupted volume is a problem."
"SCVMM needs to be more user-friendly. Without SCVMM, automating is not easy to use and we look forward to the upcoming versions of SCVMM becoming simpler and more admin friendly."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"VMware Workstation has some network limitations which could improve, it is not as flexible as VMware NSX. Additionally, it could support operating systems better. I only run some Linux versions and Windows at the moment but it would be nice to be able to take whatever operating system you want and run it."
"The product’s virtual machine data backup feature needs upgrading."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting capabilities, particularly around snapshot activity. It would be helpful to have a summary of changes made prior to deploying an application, allowing us to provide comprehensive reports to our management on a regular basis."
"The solution should provide a guide on its installation."
"The product's integration capabilities are an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"The big issue that we've always had with VMware, was the disparity between what was presented for a Windows-based client and a Linux-based client. The Windows client was always two or three releases ahead of the Linux client. We always wanted VMware to change and improve the feature sets between the client connector on Linux and on Windows."
"The product could provide the features available in Microsoft Hyper-V."
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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