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.
"It is an affordable platform."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"I find that most of the competition is more or less the same. However, Hyper-V is, when you compare it to the older platforms like VMware, a little bit more advanced at this stage."
"The support with Microsoft is great."
"The solution has an easy setup."
"The solution is easy to configure."
"Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V."
"The simplicity and intuitiveness of the platform. It was a very simple adaptation, if you have any experience in virtualization."
"I have found this product excellent for test/dev environments. This is 90% of what I use this product for."
"The most valuable features of the VMware Workstation solutions are the ESXi and vCenter."
"The initial setup is simple and takes only five minutes to complete."
"VMware Workstation’s most valuable feature is virtualization technology."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is an easy-to-use product."
"The product is stable, very easy to deploy, easy to use, easy to configure, and easy to set up."
"Technical support is very good."
"VMware Workstation allows you to run a virtual machine."
"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."
"It needs to improve the handling of the amount of storage."
"I would like Microsoft to put more effort into the Admin Center interface and make it much easier. It is customizable, but you have to be a PowerShell expert to customize these things. That is a limitation."
"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 product can be a bit difficult to use."
"VMware has antivirus protection that covers the entire VM. If Microsoft could have something similar to this in Hyper-V, that would be great."
"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."
"Hyper-V's management platform falls short in terms of scalability, especially when handling multiple Hyper-V servers. VMware has a central console to pull in all your VM servers, so you can easily manage them all through one console. You can manage servers in Hyper-V's admin centers, but it's not as scalable. It's doable with a couple of Hyper-V servers, but it becomes harder to manage when you get over two or three Hyper-V servers."
"VMware Workstation uses more resources like CPU and disk space, especially the CPU, which is a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"They could add more integration between them, and compatibility with the standard virtualization format."
"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."
"It takes too much time to load all the plug-ins and software."
"It would be better if software updates occur automatically."
"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."
"Lacks the ability to clone onto another system rather than starting from scratch."
"The solution can be expensive."
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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