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's a very manageable product."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"The solution is highly stable."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"It is very easy to install. It can be done in a day."
"The most valuable feature is that it's an end-to-end solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the storage virtualization."
"The solution is very powerful, easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well with Windows. If you are looking for a hundred percent Microsoft environment it would be a good idea to go with Hyper-V. They work wonderfully together."
"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 is great for migrating and patching operating systems."
"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."
"It is much more mature compared to Nutanix or SimpliVity when it's cross-platform based."
"Because the setup is so easy, this is a solution that can be used at a moment's notice."
"Great at solving connection problems."
"The performance is good."
"The most valuable features of the VMware Workstation solutions are the ESXi and vCenter."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Traditional architecture, such as converged infrastructure, should be done away with"
"Hyper-V could improve the management tools."
"In general, based on my little experience with Hyper-V, I see a lot of obstacles. I think it falls behind the other competitors."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"They could work on lowering the cost of the solution."
"The price of VMware Workstation could improve."
"My experience with Workstation is limited, so I don't know all the functionalities of this tool. Maybe Workstation could add some more compatibility with other vendors."
"They could bring in many different features from VMware vSphere to Workstation."
"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 could improve the export and import of virtual machines."
"The price should be reduced."
"I would want to see features included that make deployment easier."
"Lacks the ability to clone onto another system rather than starting from scratch."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 46 reviews while VMware Workstation is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 15 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 7.6, while VMware Workstation is rated 8.6. 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 "Easy to use, powerful virtualization capabilities, and good performance". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox, KVM and Citrix Hypervisor, whereas VMware Workstation is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Oracle VM VirtualBox, VMware Fusion and Proxmox VE.
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