Hyper-V vs VMware: How to Choose Between Them

Introduction to Hyper-V

Starting with Windows 8, Hyper-V is included in the Windows 64-bit operating systems as the default hypervisor. In addition, this software is only available for the Pro, Enterprise, Education, and Server editions. Is Hyper V free? Yes, it is.

If you want to use Hyper-V to create virtual machines, you need to first check whether your PC can run this feature by executing the command “systeminfo”. In the Hyper-V requirements part, if you see 4 “yes”, you can then enable Hyper-V and use it.

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Introduction to VMware vSphere

Many people want to know about Hyper V vs VMware vSphere. Therefore, I will introduce VMware vSphere here.

VMware vSphere is a server virtualization platform, which transforms data centers into aggregated computing infrastructures that include CPU, storage, and networking resources. vSphere manages these infrastructures as a unified operating environment and provides you with the tools to administer the data centers that participate in that environment.

The two core components of vSphere are ESXi and vCenter Server.

• ESXi: It is the virtualization platform where you create and run virtual machines and virtual appliances.
• vCenter Server: It is the service through which you manage multiple hosts connected to a network and pool host resources.

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Hyper V vs VMware

Some differences between Hyper-V and VMware are as follows:

1. VMware’s Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) holds a slight edge over Hyper-V’s Resilient File System (ReFS), particularly when it comes to clustering. Hyper-V’s Cluster Shared Volume is more complicated.
2. Hyper-V’s snapshots edge out VMware’s because Hyper-V allows 64 snapshots per VM while VMware allows just 32. In addition, Hyper-V can run snapshots in production, and its persistent checkpoints can be exported to other locations.
3. VMware supports more operating systems but Hyper-V operates faster when it runs Windows VMs.
4. Although VMware uses various technologies memory compression, transparent page sharing, and oversubscription/overcommit to optimize memory use in VMs, Hyper-V’s Dynamic Memory is simpler and better.
5. VMware implements data encryption at rest and in motion, and even during workload migration, while Hyper-V security is managed via Active Directory, which has other security components far more extensive than VMware’s.
6. VMware charges per processor, but Hyper-V’s pricing is based on the number of cores on the host. Therefore, larger enterprises may favor VMware while smaller organizations may favor Hyper-V.
7. Some features are very convenient in VMware VMs but complicated in Hyper-V VMs. For example, if you want to change the VM display resolution, you can do that like on a real PC. But in a Hyper-V VM, the process is more complicated.
8. The VM creation process is complicated in VMware. When you create a VM, Hyper-V will require you to create a virtual switch first while VMware doesn’t.
9. Hyper-V doesn’t allow you to connect the USB device directly and it doesn’t you to share a file between the host machine and the guest machine through drag and drop.

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Bottom Line

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