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October 10, 2017
Hyperactive Hyper-V Hyper-Review
We use Hyper-V across the entire organization. Everything that requires a server is virtualized, and Hyper-V makes it easy to configure a fault-tolerant cluster for a very low price. With replication, we also don’t worry as much about downtime or data loss.
- Easy to configure.
- Free with every copy of Windows Server
- Dynamically adjustable memory on the VMs
- Clustering can be tricky to configure
- Replication sometimes fails and needs to be reconfigured.
- Easy to lose track of VMs created.
- Built-in backup tools inadequate.
September 22, 2017
Hyper-V... fast and easy
Our customers use Hyper-V for scenarios where the cost associated with VMWare solutions is simply not advantageous. It is a simple to use hypervisor packed with enterprise functionality.
- Easy to use
- Easy to deploy
- Cloud consistent
- Fully integrated with Microsoft management tooling
- Overall memory management is still not as advanced as VMware ESX.
- The virtual thread model used by the hypervisor has improved but does not maximize the true power of the host CPU.
- The model for over-contention of CPU allows for significant overutilization leading to bad performance.
September 18, 2017
Hyper-V, it doesn't give software testers time to go get a brew while things roll back
We use Hyper-V for production servers and virtualising test environments across the organisation.
Testing
For testing it allows us to quickly roll back a machine to a 'clean' environment, enabling us to guarantee testing from a known point. This is something that is done very regularly in our business as we are a software development house and need that guarantee that the test environment is not spoiled by a previous build of our software, or an operating system update.
Servers
Almost all of our servers are now virtualised, this helps us manage our physical environment by reducing the hardware requirements. It also allows virtualised machines to be ported with ease if a problem arises on the host server.
Testing
For testing it allows us to quickly roll back a machine to a 'clean' environment, enabling us to guarantee testing from a known point. This is something that is done very regularly in our business as we are a software development house and need that guarantee that the test environment is not spoiled by a previous build of our software, or an operating system update.
Servers
Almost all of our servers are now virtualised, this helps us manage our physical environment by reducing the hardware requirements. It also allows virtualised machines to be ported with ease if a problem arises on the host server.
- Checkpoints - used on a daily basis many times, we would be lost without this functionality.
- Flexibility - Hyper-V manages its hardware demands seamlessly distributing memory across the guest machines without compromising the guests or the host.
- Ease of administration - Tied into the Windows OS (Server and 10 now) it is very easy to get a virtual environment running.
- Hyper-V Manager - our main Hyper-v server (for test VMs) has many virtual machines on it, and we find managing more than a handful of machines in the Hyper-V manager can become a little cumbersome.
September 18, 2017
Hyper-V Review
We use Hyper-V to support our private cloud for development and consulting purposes. Using Hyper-V provides us tremendous flexibility. We're able to run many VMs on a single host and use it to replicate many different environments for testing.
- I like the snapshot feature where you can take a snapshot of the VM and later apply that snapshot if you want to roll back your changes.
- The dynamic memory is a very nice feature. This allows the host computer to allocate memory to a VM as it is needed.
- It is nice being able to use PowerShell to manage the hyper-v service and the VM management process.
- There is nothing that I'd like to see done differently. It is simply a great product.
August 03, 2017
Hyper-V--Not quite there yet.
Hyper-v was used to host all Windows infrastructure (700+ servers) in the company. We migrated from VMware, which saved the company over 100K in licensing.
- Built into Windows, and free!
- It's getting better at having the same functionality as VMware.
- Microsoft support is very active with assistance.
- Continuing to integrate with Azure for hybrid deployments.
- Installation, particularly networking, is difficult.
- Need to improve upon cluster stability.
- Several components are needed to manage from hardware to Hyper-V. Needs a single pane of glass.
July 25, 2017
Why Hyper-V might be for you
We use Hyper-V for development VMs as well as for production VMs. I run, manage and help developers use our 600+ development VMs including all the underlying infrastructure.
- Use of scripting to create and automate VM creation and management. Powershell is one of the best scripting languages there is and Hyper-V like all Microsoft products supports it out of the box.
- Integration via Virtual Machine Manager. The real power of Hyper-V is when you pair it with VMM. You then get easy templating and a lot of other more advanced features.
- Since Windows Server 2016, Hyper-V clusters support automatic load balancing between nodes.
- Hyper-V clusters are really not reliable enough if you need 24/7 operation. We encountered a lot of hardware failure which resulted in the cluster restarting all the nodes (even the nodes which were OK) which is kind of the opposite goal of clusters.
- Poor support for less popular Linux OS like Arch Linux.
- Practically no features when used without Virtual Machine Manager. No templates, no user management, no balancing (Except on Windows Server 2016), etc.
I have been using Hyper-V for about half a year for creating clusters on Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu).
- Very satisfied with the results: simplicity, reliability and its speed of work.
- But found several cons: absence of drag-and-drop, clipboard also does not work, therefore there is no possibility to copy-paste files from my PC to Hyper-V. Can do this only via RDP but it takes some work: install XRDP, open ports. So, per my point of view it needs refinement to make such things easier.
We began to make an entire conversion to Hyper-V over the last 2 years for our new DC and also our remote locations. The problem it was supposed to solve was the increasing cost of VMware.
- Lower cost if you are a MS Windows shop. You have to license Windows anyway so if you have a data-center license you get the rights to use unlimited Hyper-V on that host.
- Third party support is lacking. It is easy to get third party tools and support for VMware, but not so with Hyper-V.
- Uses too many resources. Unless you run 2016 nano it is still to bloaty and consumes too much of the available host resources. Typically 4-8GB compared to less than 1GB for VMware.
- Requires third party plugins to get good monitoring of resources.
- VMM is the equivalent to vCenter and it pales in comparison. It is for more complex to use and is extremely bloated and slow. Nothing is intuitive and the complexity means you are more likely going to make mistakes or have issues.
- Backing up VMs is difficult unless you have a fully supported guest and properly running integration services. Hyper-V does not support crash consistent snaps like VMware does and will often pause the running VM it it can not get a clean snap. This is clearly unacceptable in a mission critical environment.
March 30, 2017
Hyper-V at Small Healthcare Organization
We use Hyper-V at an enterprise level to create and maintain all of our virtual machines. Currently, most of this resides on an IBM Blade Center with four blades and about 12 VMs.
- Since Hyper-V is a Microsoft application it integrates seamlessly with the OS and other related tools.
- Setup and Maintenance of VMs is straightforward.
- As an established product, Hyper-V is supported by most other systems (e.g. Disaster Recovery).
- We use Hyper-V in a Windows Server 2012 environment. As with many other features of this Server OS, certain aspects are less than intuitive.
- I don't have experience directly with other products such as VMware. But I have the impression, from peers in other organizations, that Hyper-V is somewhat less powerful and feature-rich.
March 28, 2017
Hyper-V Great for DR
Hyper-V is being used as our hypervisor platform to support our disaster recovery/secondary data center operation. VMware runs our other data center. Hyper-V was implemented in DR to save licensing costs over VMware and also as a way for the bank to assess its capabilities in a slightly less critical operation. It has been a very successful project.
- Included in Windows Server licensing with Enterprise Agreements. Leveraging value from the EA and saving money over main competitors like VMware is a key business strength of the solution.
- Hyper-V is relatively easy to manage if you have experienced Windows engineers on staff.
- I have found the solution to be very reliable (not your typical reboot every couple weeks kind of solution).
- Monitoring the performance and uptime of the solution is still best achieved with third party tools.
- Hypervisor replication like Zerto or VMware Site Recovery Manager are still superior products for high availability.
June 06, 2016
The not so Hyper virtualization platform Hyper-V
We used Hyper-V to support virtual applications and additional virtual machines for production and development. The ability to spin up a virtual environment which could be backed up and re-stored quickly was critical for our infrastructure for development of new support for our client base. We tested several virtual environments during the time phase and Hyper-V was one of them.
- Quick and easy deployment
- Managing the environment was easy for anyone with Windows experience.
- Well documented on the internet for self help.
- Very resource intensive.
- A learning curve coming from ESXi.
- Some limitations such as promiscuous mode on a NIC.
May 03, 2016
Huge $avings on SQL Licensing
Our Hyper-V infrastructure was built to reduce the cost of licensing for SQL Server that we previously had with systems running VMware. We have both a Test/Dev infrastructure and a Production infrastructure. Each contains a number of host servers with multi-path connections to storage systems (EMC VNX for less critical systems, and SolidFire for critical systems. SQL Servers were transitioned from stand-alone systems to SQL farms. We have, and will, save close to $7M over a five year lifespan just on the SQL licensing. These Hyper-V systems are used across numerous business organizations in our company, with both internal - and external-facing applications.
- The greatest good the use of Hyper-V has done for our company is to significantly reduce the cost of SQL Server licensing.
- Clustering in Hyper-V is well done, once you get used to the differences between Microsoft's way and VMware's way. Log into one of the hosts or at the cluster level, and get to work. In VMware, you have to log into a vCenter host first, then open the vSphere tool and wait for it to authenticate you.
- Storage management is an one area that is a prime candidate for improvement. One should not have to shut down a host in order to balance out storage utilization across systems, but that is what we have to do here. We can't just juggle clients and their storage between systems to balance the disk storage utilization out.
- For the novice, it can be confusing in trying to decide when to use the Cluster Failover Manager and when to use the Hyper-V Management Console. A lot of what an administrator needs to do is not, at first, intuitive. Finding where to go to pause and drain rolls -- while simple enough once one is accustomed to it -- can be very intimidating to the uninitiated.
April 13, 2016
Hyper-V Review by a Database Administrator/Developer
Hyper-V is used across R&D, IT, and support. Each department has their own Hyper-V server but can use VMs from another department's server if need be. We create Virtual Machines in Hyper-V for testing and quality control purposes and to recreate issues from clients in order to track down the proper fix for that issue. The business problem it addresses is having to recreate so many different environments for testing, quality assurance and support. We can test upgrades, patches, configuration setting, etc., with little overhead costs.
- Make creation of VMs simple with a wizard that will walk you through each step. A brand new user to Hyper-V should be able to open Hyper-V and create a VM in a matter of minutes. Creating and using the VM are different but creating the actual VM is simple.
- Taking snapshots of VMs is simple. Just choose the VM and choose to create a snapshot. The snapshots are easy to manage and are shown in a graphical 'tree' to show how they are related and what the order of their creation is.
- Changing VM setting and configurations are simple within Hyper-V settings. You can change everything from the amount of RAM to the size of the hard drive along with how many processors a VM is allocated from the Hyper-V host. You can also add network 'cards' and drives to mimic different RAID and networking setups.
- Migrating files from one Hyper-V host to another can be tricky if the VM has snapshots. In testing environments most VMs will have snapshots and it can be a headache to move a VM from one host to another.
- Export/Import process is a bit clunky. There are various options when exporting and Hyper-V doesn't do the best job describing them for new users. Once you have done this a few times it is easier but the first few times may be more difficult.
- Cloning VMs causes issues. This is more of an issue with Windows and the system ID that Windows has but cloning a VM is not as easy as just copying the files and pasting them in another folder. The VM setting will clone just fine but the VM hard drive (VHD or VHDX) could cause issues.
April 13, 2016
Hyper-V for growing company.
We use Hyper-V as for production as for our internal needs. We have several Hyper-V clusters for different departments in our organization - Dev, QA, Ops and IT. First three use Hyper-V for development, testing and deployment. IT uses Hyper-V for internal projects. We also provide solutions hosted on Hyper-V for our customers. Hyper-V helps us to keep our clustered environments reliable, scalable and highly effective.
- Hyper-V is available. It won't take you much time to create your own virtualized environment.
- It's easily scalable. Not a big deal to add more nodes to cluster.
- It's reliable. High Availability goes out-of-the-box.
- Not informative. It's hard to find how much of sources used.
- Logs not so great. It's hard to troubleshoot issues.
- Hard to operate with templates.
- It's a challenge to deploy big amount of VMs at one time.
March 29, 2016
HyperV Review
Hyper-V is used for very specific workloads within our organization, generally dev and test only. It helps solve the need to virtualize workloads within our environment.
- Hyper-V is easy to manage and has a fairly quick learning curve for people who are used to other hypervisor management software.
- Hyper-V's high availability options are on par with any other hypervisor solutions available, however they do tend to be a little more difficult to configure.
- Storage management is easy to do and the high availability works well.
- We have seen hiccups when losing connectivity to either storage or a network that require manual intervention.
- Would love to see a more striped down version of windows that the Hyper-V hosts get installed on.
October 09, 2015
Hyper-v thoughts: Born from the crucible of fiery experience.
We use Hyper-V 2008 R2 in the Enterprise (which thankfully I don't have to support) and we use Hyper-V 2012 R2 in the lab supporting the infrastructure. This consists of required resources such as domain controllers, WSUS, Monitoring that are required for the lab domain. Used because the environment doesn't change much and cheaper than VMware.
- Initial setup is very easy. Just add the role and you've got a hyper-visor that's easy to use
- Cheap
- Hypervisor itself is stable. No BSODs
- Hard/confusing to setup a failover cluster. Must install a separate role on the server and use a separate tool.
- Reliability in multi-node cluster is poor. Live migration has failed on a fresh/correct configuration. Solution on technet was to reboot the VM!
- Product feels "glued together." Use Failover clustering for some things, hyper-v manager for others, SCVMM for others. Confusing.
- Less flexibility. If the host loses management/heartbeat the whole cluster will shutdown to protect integrity even if the VMs are fine. As near as I can tell neither 2008 r2 nor 2012 r2 have an option to control this.
October 09, 2015
Hyper-V is awesome
We have 6 Hyper-V hosts and over 100 VMs. Most of the VMs are a Microsoft operating system from 2003 to 2012r2 and Windows 7, 8 and 10 for the vdi environment. We also have several Linux guests as well. We are migrating from 2008r2 hosts to a 2012r2 cluster. It has served us very well and saved the college thousands of dollars a year in software costs. We do use Virtual Machine Manager to manage the virtual environment and we will be implementing Hyper-V replicas for business continuity in the near future.
- It is easy to get started.
- If you are a Microsoft shop, you have to buy the server OS licenses any way and it saves the other hypervisor costs.
- It works and just continues to run.
- Permissions to individual VMs in a large environment can be difficult to get set up properly.
- Third party integration is still developing.
- Would like to see a broader adoption.
October 09, 2015
Why Hyper-V
I designed, built out and currently manage several Active, Passive Win2012R2 (migrated from a 2008R2 cluster I build originally) Hyper-V clusters using an EqualLogic SAN storage group as the shared storage array (this reduced total server install base from 98 at two locations to 18 at four locations).
- Extremely easy to manage and cluster.
- Exceptionally robust and able to recover from disaster very well.
- The product makes good use of available system resources.
- It has a way to go in VDI. While the functionality is fully there it is more difficult to deploy than Citrix or VMware.
- It needs a better way to upgrade the virtualization framework drivers between revisions and when it is updated for the host system.
October 07, 2015
Easy and Cheap, what's not to love?
We use Hyper-V as the hypervisor at all of our company offices, with multiple clusters hosting approximately 150 virtual servers. We have recently replace dVMWare with Hyper-V due to cost considerations as well as ease of use. Hyper-V was already included in our Microsoft license agreement and includes features that were very expensive through VMWare. We have found that Hyper-V was very easy to use because its interface is built on Windows, which our technicians were already familiar with after using it on most of our servers.
- Hyper-V allows you to do replicas to another hyper-v server.
- Hyper-V in clustered mode is easy to setup and easy to manage.
- Hyper-V allows you to seamlessly migrate servers to other Hyper-V instances even at other sites.
- Hyper-V allows for seamless integration to Microsoft Azure for a could solution.
- Occasionally there are issues that need to be resolved that prevent online migration of a single VM to another host.
- SCVMM is needed to optimize a cluster and have it automatically spread the VMs out across a cluster.
- Hyper-V supports SMB 3.0, but it must be a Microsoft SMB solution for backups and use of a quorum drive.
June 07, 2014
Windows Server - HyperV - You need to buy it.
We are in a migration process from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V. We have virtualized all site based servers so there is only one physical server and and 5 virtuals. This process has made deployments faster, easier and cost effective. If you're a Return on Investment kind of person then you should differently invest in Hyper-V.
The product addresses the ever growing need to integrate newer technologies and keeping the total cost down so your budget can be used elsewhere.
The product addresses the ever growing need to integrate newer technologies and keeping the total cost down so your budget can be used elsewhere.
- Microsoft Hyper-V, a great tool to virtualize physical servers.
- Ease of management, you can manage the server from the host or from your desktop.... win win, and i don't mean rdc
- Supported OS
- Hyper-V needs to include USB pass though.
- Smaller footprint installation.
- The only thing i would have done differently is automated the deployments to speed up the process.