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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LogMeIn Central

    Score6 out of 10
    N/ALogMeIn Central is a cloud-based remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform for IT teams and managed service providers. The solution provides remote access, endpoint monitoring, patch management, task automation, scripting, and reporting from a single console. It supports Windows and Mac environments and includes antivirus management powered by Bitdefender.N/A

    Hyper-V

    Score8.4 out of 10
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    $24.95

    per month

    Pricing
    LogMeIn CentralHyper-V
    Editions & Modules
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    Developer
    $24.95
    per month
    Bronze
    $49.00
    per month
    Silver
    $89.00
    per month
    Gold
    $135.00
    per month
    Platinum
    $199.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LogMeIn CentralHyper-V
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    LogMeIn CentralHyper-V
    Considered Both Products
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    No answer on this topic
    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
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    Happy with the feature set
    95%
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    94%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
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    96%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    LogMeIn CentralHyper-V
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of LogMeIn Central and Hyper-V
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    LogMeIn Central
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    Ratings
    Hyper-V
    7.6
    73 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings6.861 Ratings
    Management console00 Ratings7.873 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings8.265 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings7.367 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings7.867 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    LogMeIn CentralHyper-V
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (97 ratings)
    8.4
    (74 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    9.6
    (85 ratings)
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    Availability
    9.6
    (83 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    7.5
    (16 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    LogMeIn CentralHyper-V
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    LogMeIn Central by GoTo is well suited for easy, direct access to specific, perhaps mission critical, machines. Its remote control functionality and speed is very good - best in class, really. However, it simply can't replace a true and traditional RMM product in terms of robustness and overall ability (or lack thereof).
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    Microsoft
    Hyper-V makes a lot of sense in scenarios that will support several Windows Server-based OS virtual machines. The only limitation of those licensed VMs is the hardware that hosts the Hyper-V role. If you need to deploy many servers running Windows Server OS, it is worth the price. Hyper-V also does a great job of managing the server host's computational resources, including memory, CPU, network, and storage.
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    Pros
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    • IT professionals can explore and use the platform more easily because to its intuitive interfaces and user-friendly features.
    • It keeps an eye on the functionality and health of the gadgets, sending out notifications in real time if anything seems wrong.
    • It expands to meet the demands of expanding companies and can handle a higher volume of devices.
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    • Easy to use GUI - very easy for someone with sufficient Windows experience - not necessarily a system administrator.
    • Provisioning VMs with different OSes - we mostly rely on different flavors of Windows Server, but having a few *nix distributions was not that difficult.
    • Managing virtual networks - we usually have 1 or 2 VLANs for our business purposes, but we are happy with the outcomes.
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    Cons
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    • It could pull up the user's login in addition to the hostname
    • Employee shortcuts like "win+r", "Ctrl+shitf+dell", on the computer that is connected remotely. This is needed
    • Being able to minimize the bar in the top corner of the screen that is left when you are connected to a remote computer
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    Microsoft
    • We manage Hyper-V using both System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and the in-build Hyper-V administration tool, the former being the main product we use as the built-in tool is very light on functionality, unlike VMware ESXi.
    • Management of storage is not great and quite a shift away from how VMware does it with ESXi; there is no separate panel/blade/window for LUNs/data stores, which means there is a lot of back and forth when trying to manage storage.
    • A dedicated client with all functionality in one place would be awesome.
    • Having the equivalent of ESXi's virtual console is something which is absolutely needed.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    What I dont like is when I run out of licenses that the only way to get more is to buy large amounts. this is very frustrating and as a small business I need to watch how much i am spending. smaller license packs would be better
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    Microsoft
    Cheap and easy is the name of the game. It has great support, it doesn't require additional licenses, it works the same if it is a cluster or stand-alone, and all the servers can be centrally managed from a system center virtual machine manager server, even when located at remote sites.
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    Usability
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    It is wonderful after the initial setup and implementation.It's fairly intuitive and easy to use for more of our tech and users. These types of products have come a long way. I've been in tech for 20+ years, and thinking back to tools like PC anywhere things have become just so much more user friendly on both ends of the device.
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    Microsoft
    It is quite intuitive. Junior techs are able to provision and administrate Hyper-V virtual server infrastructure with little to no additional training. Documentation from Microsoft is easily avaliable and decently well written. Hyper-V is reliable and does what it is supposed to. Can be admin from an intuitive gui, or aoutmated with extensive powershell.
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    Reliability and Availability
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    During our 6 years of use, we [have] never seen any downtime from their side. The application simply works. We have had incidents when we were not able to connect to remote servers by any means, but LogMeIn Central always worked. It has saved us trips to other offices. We have few users are who live in rural areas where internet speeds are not great. Supporting these users is a big challenge, but LogMeIn Central was always a lifesaver.
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    Microsoft
    In the past 2 years our Hyper-V servers have only had a handful of instances where the VM's on them were unreachable and the physical Hyper-V server had to be restarted. One time this was due to a RAM issue with the physical box and was resolved when we stopped using dynamic memory in Hyper-V. The other times were after updates were installed and the physical box was not restarted after the updates were installed.
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    Performance
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
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    Microsoft
    Hyper-V itself works quickly and rarely gave performance issues but this can be more attributed to the physical server specifications that the actual Hyper-V software in my opinion as Hyper-V technically just utilizes config files such as xml, and a data drive file (VHD, VHDX, etc) to perform its' duties.
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    Support Rating
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    Every time I called in with a question or concern, your support team always provided the right information. It's great to call in to support and everyone that answers is very knowledgeable of the product.
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    Microsoft
    I gave it a middle of the road rating - as far as getting direct help from Microsoft this never seems to happen. (Good luck getting ahold of them.) Getting help from online support forums is pretty much where I get all my help from. Hyper-V is used quite widely and anything you could need help with is out there and easily searched for on your favorite search engine.
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    In-Person Training
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    We had in person training from a third party and while it was very in depth it was at a beginner's level and by the time we received the training we had advanced past this level so it was monotonous and redundant at that point. It was good training though and would have provided a solid foundation for learning the rest of Hyper-V had I had it from the beginning.
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    Online Training
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    The training was easy to read and find. There were good examples in the training and it is plentiful if you use third party resources also. It is not perfect as sometimes you may have a specific question and have to spend time learning or in the rare case you get an error you might have to research that error code which could have multiple causes.
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    Implementation Rating
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    I was not involved in the implementation of the product.
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    Microsoft
    initial configuration of hyper-v is intuitive to anyone familiar with windows and roles for basic items like single server deployments, storage and basic networking. the majority of the problems were with implementing advanced features like high availability and more complex networking. There is a lot of documentation on how to do it but it is not seamless, even to experienced virtualization professionals.
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    Alternatives Considered
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    LogmeIn Central is the fastest RMM in terms of remote connection. It generally performs well on networks that have low bandwidth too. In terms of features, Datto RMM does best it because it offers such a good platform for integrations and also for scripting. The community is very open with that software which really gives it a boost, and this is something LogMein Central could work on.
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    Microsoft
    VMware is the pioneer of virtualization but when you compare it with Hyper-V, VMware lacks the flexibility of hardware customization and configuration options Hyper-V has also GPU virtualization still not adequate for both platforms. VMware has better graphical interface and control options for virtual machines. Another advantage VMware has is it does not need a dedicated os GUI base installation only needs small resources and can easily install on any host.
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    Scalability
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Nothing is perfect but Hyper-V does a great job of showing the necessary data to users to ensure that there is enough resources to perform essential functions. You can also select what fields show on the management console which is helpful for a quick glance. There are notifications that can be set up and if things go unnoticed and a Hyper-V server runs out of a resource it will safely and quickly shut down the VM's it needs to in order to ensure no Hardware failure or unnecessary data loss.
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    Return on Investment
    GoTo formerly LogMeIn
    • Its a very comprehensive and cost effective solution from Central that is very easy to use and user friendly.
    • Its compliant with many security policies. Hence boost security for our clients and end users.
    • The downtime was very low, hence making it more reliable and top-notch.
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    • Massively positive impact on expenses in my company by reducing our storage needs drastically. We were able to reallocate the budget to upgrading our primary Hyper-V server with pure enterprise SSD's as we reduced the storage needs by over 50% and by this we increased performance by over 400%.
    • We have deployed more than 8 servers with EXTREMELY minimal cost using Hyper-V and not requiring another hardware server to host it. We have leveraged our hardware resources in our 2 servers so well that we were able to add many new services, not in place prior, as we did not have the servers to host them. Now with Hyper-V, we deployed many more servers in VM's, purchased OS's & CAL's, but did not need any hardware, which is the greatest expense of all.
    • With Hyper-V, our ROI was reduced from 36-40 months on our primary server, down to only 13 months by reducing costs of storage and adding so many more servers, by calculating the "would-be" cost of those servers that was avoided by creating them in Hyper-V.
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