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.
"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 solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"We've probably seen a 50 percent speed increase on our SQL server. Hyper-V has also significantly reduced our downtimes with faster boot-up and reboot. If we have to reboot a server, there is maybe two or three minutes of downtime. When we were on a bare-metal server, it could be five to ten minutes due to the total boot time."
"It utilizes the hardware so there are multiple applications running on one hypervisor."
"We appreciate how easy this solution is to implement on standalone severs."
"For me, the setup of Hyper-V was an easy process, which took only one hour from start to finish."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to integrate the Hyper-Visor center from one console."
"There are some products that you can mount over Hyper-V that provide the features that, in today's Hyper-V, are not present."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is snapshot."
"We are able to simultaneously run multiple operating systems in a single machine and have virtually no performance hit."
"It's stable."
"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 Workstation’s most valuable feature is virtualization technology."
"The features are good."
"The solution's customer service is good."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workstation are the speed of access and quality of upgrade. Those are the more important and pertinent aspects as far as we were concerned. Functionality and features were relevant for the customers. What a customer chose, we had to make sure that it operated."
"VMware has antivirus protection that covers the entire VM. If Microsoft could have something similar to this in Hyper-V, that would be great."
"In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"I think there is room for improvement in terms of the cloud solutions."
"It needs additional administration and monitoring capabilities."
"Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces."
"Security, computing balance, and taking snapshots could be improved. Features like DRS and memory ballooning could be added."
"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."
"There could be more integration with different tools."
"The interface is a little wonky and needs to be improved."
"They could add more integration between them, and compatibility with the standard virtualization format."
"It would be helpful if VMware Workstation included an in-built monitoring tool for monitoring things."
"The solution should provide a guide on its installation."
"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."
"It takes too much time to load all the plug-ins and software."
"Lacks the ability to clone onto another system rather than starting from scratch."
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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