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Hyper-V. Rock solid environment for your VM's

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 15, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Hyper-V is used to host on-premise servers, is hosting Windows servers and Linux servers.It provides an easy virtualization environment without having to spend money in licens...
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Verified user
Manager
Hyper-V7 years of experience

Hypervisor for the Budget Conscious

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 13, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Hyper-V is our production hypervisor, replacing VMware's ESXi which we ran for nearly a decade. We moved from ESXi to Hyper-V after support issues during a major incident. We ...
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Verified user
Manager
Hyper-V3 years of experience

Short review on Hyper-V

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 25, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Hyper-V in our organization for Virtual servers with various roles and also for virtual clients for test applications. Our scope of use case has two main cases first ha...
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Taner Imamoglu
Professional - Information Technology
Senior Information Technology Specialist
Öksüt Madencilik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.
Hyper-V5 years of experience

Hyper-V is great for the right scenarios. Remains basic, but does the job and is easy to use.

Rating: 7 out of 10
March 25, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Hyper-V comes with specific Microsoft licenses to our organization so we use it as a "freebie" which makes it more desirable in some cases than any other virtualization soluti...
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Borislav Traykov
Engineer - Engineering
DevOps Team Leader
Cognyte
Hyper-V3 years of experience

Low cost and familiar solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 25, 2022
IncentivizedVetted Review
Hyper-V is our preferred hypervisor, as all our techs are familiar with the Microsoft universe already they quickly learn how to manage the software without a need to learn a ...
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Brian Cook
Vice-President - Customer Service
Information Security Officer
Unified Technology Solutions, Inc.
Hyper-V6 years of experience
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Pricing

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Developer

$24.95

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Bronze

$49.00

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per month

Silver

$89.00

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Installation demo of GUI for Hyper-V 2012, 2012 R2 & 2016 Core

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hyper v windows 10 - virtual machine | Microsoft Hyper-V (tutorial)

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Hyper-V Dynamic Memory and Remote FX Demo

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vtUtilities Demo

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Configuring and running the AX 2012 Hyper-V image with VirtualBox

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Step 2 - Setting up the Hyper-V Admin Console using RSAT for Windows 7

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Features

Server Virtualization

Server virtualization allows multiple operating systems to be run completely independently on a single server

8.7
Avg 8.4
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Product Details

What is Hyper-V?

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Hyper-V Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
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Hypervisor for the Budget Conscious

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
June 13, 2023
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hyper-V
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Hyper-V is our production hypervisor, replacing VMware's ESXi which we ran for nearly a decade. We moved from ESXi to Hyper-V after support issues during a major incident. We also wanted to have closer integration with Microsoft Azure, our chosen Cloud platform. This has opened up the door to Azure Site Recovery to address potential Disaster Recovery scenarios.
Pros
  • Integration with Microsoft System Center.
  • MS Windows administrative users have a head start with using Hyper-V as it is a familiar product.
  • It's very cost effective compared to VMware ESXi.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
If budgets are stretched, Hyper-V is a very cost effective solution. Any veteran MS Windows administrators will have little issue in getting to grips with this. If you are familiar with VMware solutions, then you may find Hyper-V a little frustrating as it does lack some of the functionality of those products, however nothing that will prevent you from managing your virtual workloads and estate. Since rolling out Hyper-V 2019 we have had no real issues with it; ESXi seemed to have more issues and was less forgiving with hardware compatibility.

Hyper-V. Rock solid environment for your VM's

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
June 15, 2023
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Facilities Services Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hyper-V
7 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Hyper-V is used to host on-premise servers, is hosting Windows servers and Linux servers.It provides an easy virtualization environment without having to spend money in licensing. It's rock solid, we had not experienced availability or performance problems.
Pros
  • Good performance
  • Availavility
  • Reliability
Cons
  • DR integration with third party solutions / partners
  • OS updates may require rebooting the server. Too many updates monthly
Likelihood to Recommend
Overall it's a good product, has a good performance, reliability and it's easy to use.
We're trying to setup a DR scenario replicated on private cloud and here is where we have found problems, because Hyper-V is not supported in this scenario, but with vmware can be done. So it's a bit dissapointing. We have to wait an update of the DR management SW or move to vmware.

Short review on Hyper-V

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
March 25, 2022
TI
Taner Imamoglu
Senior Information Technology Specialist
Öksüt Madencilik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. (Mining & Metals, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hyper-V
5 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Hyper-V in our organization for Virtual servers with various roles and also for virtual clients for test applications.
Our scope of use case has two main cases first having virtual servers to update/upgrade servers easily/revert changes or bring servers back online from backups and also having virtual clients for testing new applications, group policy rules, and other organizational changes
Pros
  • Editing configuration of virtual machines.
  • Installing Windows operating system based VM client computer easier than rivals.
  • Efficient resource use and management.
Cons
  • Able to use usb drives for operating system installation without needing .iso file.
  • Dedicated gpu virtualisation could be easier for VMs.
  • The console interface could be improved and shows a small thumbnail of running machines.
Likelihood to Recommend
Because Hyper-V is a Microsoft product and based on Windows OS, creating virtual Windows servers and clients are easy. When we want to test our group policies it it best to do it on hyper-v environment then implement to production clients. The same goes with operating system quality and features updates as well as operating system upgrades.

Hyper-V is great for the right scenarios. Remains basic, but does the job and is easy to use.

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
March 25, 2022
BT
Borislav Traykov
DevOps Team Leader
Cognyte (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hyper-V
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Hyper-V comes with specific Microsoft licenses to our organization so we use it as a "freebie" which makes it more desirable in some cases than any other virtualization solution simply because we don't need to pay hefty Enterprise-grade licenses. We do use Hyper-V in a rather simplistic way - host servers and guest VMs on each one. However, for this purpose alone we are pretty satisfied with what we get. In a previous company, I was a part of the efforts for automated provisioning of VMs in Hyper-V and even though it required A LOT of reading semi-internal documentation and some in-depth posts, we got it running in a pretty stable state.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • Hyper-V is very slow to adapt to trends in infrastructure and its features are very basic when compared to the offerings from VMWare and some other companies.
  • For instance, VMWare has implemented a built-in Kubernetes cluster provisioning feature (that comes with a specific license that costs extra of course).
  • Hyper-V's infrastructure monitoring is very basic and altering is non-existent. It's up to the system administrators to either create or install separate monitoring & alerting solutions.
  • Hyper-V cannot handle some virtualization needs all that well - my example is with VM backups and snapshots. Both of these are supposed to fulfill specific needs, but there are a number of gotchas in each of those cases (easily corruptible VHD files, gradually growing in size snapshots) that an administrator needs to address occasionally - administration overhead where you would not expect it.
Likelihood to Recommend
Hyper-V is an OK virtualization hypervisor when used on a Windows workstation or when you have a license for it as a freebie (and no budget and/or knowledge for one of VMWare's solutions). You can do a lot of virtualization tasks manually without problems. Long-term management and more complicated use cases will be challenging and need to be considered. Finally, Hyper-V is not that well suited to be a part of hybrid cloud infrastructure - most of the tooling is proprietary to Microsoft so it's very rare that someone or some system is able to manage Hyper-V hosts using SDKs and APIs.

Low cost and familiar solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
March 25, 2022
BC
Brian Cook
Information Security Officer
Unified Technology Solutions, Inc. (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Reseller
Hyper-V
6 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Hyper-V is our preferred hypervisor, as all our techs are familiar with the Microsoft universe already they quickly learn how to manage the software without a need to learn a second Operating System, this familiarity allows us to quickly roll out new systems as needed and to troubleshoot those systems the rare times it has been needed.
Pros
  • Ease of Use.
  • Low Entry Cost.
  • Quick Deployment.
Cons
  • Improved backup system.
  • Better central management.
Likelihood to Recommend
Small businesses that are trying to save costs when software requires a dedicated server are what we have found to be the most useful scenario for Hyper-V as more and more vendors are requiring dedicated server installs for their software. While I understand how this makes support easier for them a small business usually has more than enough horsepower with their existing systems to support these lines of business apps, as Hyper-V licenses are already included when buying windows servers this is often a no-cost option for clients.
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