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.
"This solution helps us with production of our office business needs."
"It is good for small installations."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable. It is a good solution."
"The virtual SAN feature is helpful."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"The setup was straightforward and easy for our company. The deployment was fast."
"I appreciate its stability and user-friendly management interface."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"VMware Workstation allows you to run a virtual machine."
"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 platform’s most valuable feature is snapshot."
"The initial setup is simple and takes only five minutes to complete."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the DirectX support, you can run Microsoft Hyper-V in virtual environments which is good for me to test different installations. Additionally, you can set up different VLANs, and overall it is a complete solution."
"VMware Workstation allows multiple operating systems in the same physical machine."
"It is much more mature compared to Nutanix or SimpliVity when it's cross-platform based."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is an easy-to-use product."
"Sometimes it is a mess, and it is getting hanged. It should be something that could be easily fixed. It made us have to deal with fixing the bugs."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"It should be deployed with OS so there is no need to install OS separately, only select the OS and get it ready."
"There's room for improvement in Hyper-V. One area I've personally encountered issues with is live migration. Sometimes during live migrations, the process gets stuck in a certain state. This can happen with replication as well. It's not necessarily a major problem, but at times, the error messages aren't very informative. They don't clearly explain why the migration failed."
"The management interface is in need of the biggest improvement."
"It would be nice if they had video acceleration, they got rid of that and VMware has video acceleration."
"The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols."
"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 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 GUI interface could be improved."
"It would be helpful if VMware Workstation included an in-built monitoring tool for monitoring things."
"Installing VMware Workstation isn't so easy. It's highly complex compared to Windows. I rate it four out of 10 for ease of installation. Setting up a remote desktop only takes a minute or so, but the Workstation itself takes some time."
"I need to buy a newer version of the tool to support Windows Server."
"They could add more integration between them, and compatibility with the standard virtualization format."
"It would be better if software updates occur automatically."
"They could bring in many different features from VMware vSphere to Workstation."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 134 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 2nd in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 41 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, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox and VMware Player.
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