Hyper-V Other Solutions Considered
I have been evaluating VMware against Hyper-V. I feel that VMware is better compared to Hyper-V.
My company chose Hyper-V over the other solutions, considering the good performance and support that it offers.
We do plan to look into other options in the future.
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Hyper-V
March 2024
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RameshDasari
IT Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We considered App-V for publishing, but it is a costly solution and is not for virtualization technology but as an end-user solution. It is for application publishing. We have also considered VMware ESX. The main difference between VMware virtualization and Microsoft Hyper-V is the VR capabilities of VMware ESX are better, but both are good.
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Morne' O'Kennedy
Lead specialist at OKCIUS (Pty) Ltd
We did evaluate other options before choosing this solution. VMware has always been a good platform but in terms of costs, it is very expensive. The other 'freeware' options are also great but did not tick our boxes in terms of features and contractual agreements.
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Reviewer1961
Works at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees
We do also use VMware vSphere. But, we use Hyper-V more. Some people have different desires. Some people want a Lexus, and other people are happy with a Honda. Both are great cars, but one is a lot more expensive.
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Arno Wolthers
System Administrator at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Rather than going with any other solution, I choose to go with Hyper-V because of its very clear cost structure.
View full review »Our customers consider other options, however for mid-level businesses who want to create their own data center, Hyper-V is easier and less expensive than using both VMware and Microsoft Windows server for VMware for Veeam.
VMware has some features that are better. It is easier to create 3D acceleration, however the licensing model is not good.
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reviewer1647333
Works at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
VMware vSphere licenses are very costly compared to Hyper-V because we have have our enterprise agreement with Microsoft, meaning that Hyper-V is free for us. We can use it without any problem.
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Jarek Słupiński
Freelancer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Citrix Xen, but this solution has become too expensive.
View full review »Before using Hyper-V, we used VMware and Citrix. This solution gave us the most flexibility.
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reviewer1563234
IT Operations Manager at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
We did look at Proxmox and Citrix Hypervisor, among other solutions.
View full review »I like VMware ESXi, I am aware they offer a free version as well. When I have time and resources, I would like to implement a new infrastructure using that. I’m very familiar with ESXi because we use that in our work infrastructure.
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Kirandas S
Technical Head ESG at Technoline Systems & Services
We evaluated Citrix solutions and Open Linux with our integration team. We choose Hyper-V because we have Microsoft Windows systems.
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Reviewer893
Sr. Programmer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
We are currently seriously considering migrating to VMware solutions.
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Sandeep Shenoy
Works at hadafq8
I think that Hyper-V stands in the same ranking as VMware or Oracle in terms of solutions for similar needs.
View full review »I looked at Hyper-V vs AHV, which is a Nutanix product. Nutanix Acropolis is a hyperconverged product that does a lot of next-level type of virtualization software.
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Sajith Kalinga
Senior System Engineer at avian Technologies (pvt) ltd
You can easily use Hyper-V coercion, and It's very good. Hyper-V is good when compared to VMI. It's not easy, but they have so many features, and backing up features and migrations and networking are much easier.
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Reviewer4901
IT Executive at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
VMware has a comparable solution, but their price is too expensive for my needs.
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No – we felt the two best solutions were VMware & MSFT as we had been using VMware and had many years of experience with MSFT products.
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reviewer1109874
Solutions Specialist at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I have evaluated VMware vSphere.
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Fitsum Abebe
COO at FA IT SERVICES PLC
In our search for an HCI solution, we have evaluated several solutions but haven't come to a decision yet. HCI offers much better flexibility, and integration between cloud and in-house sourcing, and is better from a management perspective. What we have now doesn't compare to what HCI offers.
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Shams K
Vmware Administrator at Intertech
VMware has a lot of features. For example, with vMotion, if an administrator wants to do maintenance, they can do live migrations. Hyper-V does the job and is okay, but it's not the same as VMware.
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ShaileshSurroop
Assistant Manager - IS Infrastructure
We have seriously considered Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor. It is more cost-effective.
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MS Alam
System Administrator at Abdullah Al-Othaim Markets
Due to our needs, we installed Hyper-V and VMware. It would be nice if there was a link between the HYper-V and the VMware for a test environment. When we cannot keep the two together, everything becomes a problem for the site.
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reviewer1647993
Manager
We are a public company, a government company, and, due to legislation, most of the time, we can't simply choose a vendor. If we need to acquire a contract solution, we make a technical study where the features are evaluated and the final specifications are always based on features, not on vendors, or manufacturers.
View full review »I was dropped into it, so I inherited a mostly completed environment, and then I finished it.
They had problems with the VMware running on their servers because they were using unsupported. It was before Dell released firmware for the controllers for the servers to stop complaining. Even though the drives were working fine, the controller was throwing a bunch of errors.
Plus, that version of VMware, at that time, didn't support TRIM, so then it had problems reclaiming space and stuff like that. Then it had to go over to Windows, which under Hyper-V supported TRIM. Now, VMware does support it, so it wouldn't be an issue, but it's already converted over. It's rock solid.
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Youssef EL HADJ
System and Network Administrator at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
We were looking at other options, such as Azure. But, we decided to stay with the Microsoft Hyper-V.
View full review »I have also deployed VMware.
View full review »Vmware was better, but it was more expensive.
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reviewer849252
System Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We looked at Oracle, but it did not fit our hardware, so we did not choose it.
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Hyper-V
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Hyper-V. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.