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 allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner."
"Hyper-V's technical support is good - they're responsive and sort cases based on criticality and category, so they get dealt with quickly and by the correct team."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"I have found the GUI user-friendly and having the solution be a Windows application makes it familiar to users."
"It runs our most critical workloads and supports all our branch offices."
"It is a very stable product. We have not had any issues with Hyper-V crashing itself."
"We are able to simultaneously run multiple operating systems in a single machine and have virtually no performance hit."
"I like that it's easy to use. It's easy to deploy virtual machines. You have to insert your ISO and the image of your OS and configure it. They provide a step-by-step guide, and you have to follow it. In the end, you have to start the machine, and that's all you have to do. I liked that they synchronized the mouse, keyboard, and everything. When you finish the installation, it directly links to your laptop. This makes copying and pasting things from my laptop inside the virtual machine easy."
"The product works well."
"I have found this product excellent for test/dev environments. This is 90% of what I use this product for."
"The features are good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is an easy-to-use product."
"VMware Workstation’s most valuable features are backup and data transfer from one server to another."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"The biggest problem with Hyper-V is that the virtual machines are mostly running on top of the Windows Server, so we often need to reboot the machine and virtual machines when updating the host level. That's why we prefer VMware. It's much easier to patch the host. Also, Hyper-V has security vulnerabilities. It's easy to attack and compromise the host."
"The the only challenge for us was moving existing physical machines to virtual machines."
"I would love to see other options for connecting VMs to large data storage."
"The operating system is very, very heavy."
"The Hyper-V management console could be improved to make it easier. It should be a little bit more granular. Various virtual switches could also be improved to make virtual desk management slightly better. The replication could be improved slightly. The checkpoints or snapshots could be improved to make it a bit more transparent to the user."
"It might make it easier to move VMs across Hotmail hosts. This application process make it a little bit easier."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"The technical support is good but it could improve by being faster."
"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."
"VMware Workstation uses more resources like CPU and disk space, especially the CPU, which is a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"They could bring in many different features from VMware vSphere to Workstation."
"It would be great if VMware Workstation had more networking options and compatibility, that would be great. I would like to deploy virtual switches and play around with networking a bit more. Otherwise, I have to deploy ESXi Virtual Edition and emulate it, which is painful and clunky."
"The GUI interface could be improved."
"I need to buy a newer version of the tool to support Windows Server."
"Performance could be improved, it's somewhat clunky."
"They could include official support for macOS virtualization within VMware Workstation."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 132 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, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox and VMware Fusion.
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