Hyper-V vs VMware for Windows Shops
December 18, 2019

Hyper-V vs VMware for Windows Shops

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Hyper-V

I am a consultant in the telecommunications industry. While we do not personally utilize Hyper-V on premise, I routinely support clients that have it deployed in their organization. All instances of Hyper-V that I have supported were organization-wide, or used in a development sandbox. Hyper-V is used to facilitate consolidation of server roles, or when Windows is the main operating system being deployed.

Pros

  • Hyper-V does not need to be installed as its own entity, it can be added as a server role.
  • Windows 10 virtualization is much more fluid than other competitors.

Cons

  • Management with System Center should be more fluid and intuitive.
  • There is significant overhead with Hyper-V compared to other alternatives.
  • Hyper-V is competitively priced, and has allowed some of our clients the ability to create a successful, stable virtual environment that supports day to day operations.
  • Patch Tuesday has previously been a major downside, however the alternatives also do require host reboots when significant patches are required, or downtime associated with VM reboots if not the host. It is starting to level off.
Hyper-V is powerful and virtualizes Windows exceptionally well, with less tweaking. It is also cheaper, and allows our clients to budget more for more frequent expansion. Its only real competitor in my opinion is VMware, and that is because vCenter is much more intuitive than System Center. I would pick Hyper-V over Virtual Box or KVM any day of the week.
I've never needed to open a support case for Hyper-V, as I've always been able to find remedies in documentation or forum posts. I think that speaks for how well the product performs.

Do you think Hyper-V delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Hyper-V's feature set?

Yes

Did Hyper-V live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Hyper-V go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Hyper-V again?

Yes

Veeam Backup & Replication, SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Graylog
In my opinion, if you are purely virtualizing and managing Windows VMs, Hyper-V is the clear winner. If you require a vastly diverse virtual infrastructure, other alternatives would be better suited for the lower overhead, and less frequent required host reboots. Hyper-V is also competitively priced, so if budget is the main concern Hyper-V is a solid choice.

Hyper-V Feature Ratings

Server Virtualization
6.7
Virtual machine automated provisioning
8
Management console
4
Live virtual machine backup
Not Rated
Live virtual machine migration
Not Rated
Hypervisor-level security
8

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