Hyper-V. Rock solid environment for your VM's
Hyper-V is used to host on-premise servers, is hosting Windows servers and Linux servers.It provides an easy virtualization environment …
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- Live virtual machine backup (62)9.595%
- Hypervisor-level security (65)8.989%
- Live virtual machine migration (65)8.484%
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Hyper-V Dynamic Memory and Remote FX 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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June 15, 2023
Hyper-V. Rock solid environment for your VM's
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.
- Good performance
- Availavility
- Reliability
- DR integration with third party solutions / partners
- OS updates may require rebooting the server. Too many updates monthly
March 23, 2022
Microsoft Hyper-v pluses and minuses
Hyper-V is used in our environment for test and development environments as well as VDI infrastructure and WDS image maintenance. Hyper-V is used as a lower-cost alternative to VMWare that can be installed and used on our existing Windows infrastructure. The infrastructure is used primarily by our development team.
- Lower cost
- Virtualization of Windows servers
- VDI infrastructure of Windows desktop
- Flexible
- Networking
- Managability
- Add-on tools
May 22, 2019
Hyper-V built into Windows for free
We have configured stand-alone Hyper-V servers and failover Hyper-V clusters. All of our servers are currently running under Hyper-V. From a cost perspective, all servers running windows under the Hyper-V node are free as long as you have a Windows datacenter license. This helps us keep costs down, and allows us to spin up new servers without additional licensing costs for the OS.
- Live migration.
- High availability.
- Easily create new VMS.
- Dynamically adjust RAM.
- Troubleshooting can be difficult.
- Occasional live migration failures are causing all other VM's to fail.
- A fair bit of setup is needed to get a cluster configured and up.
May 11, 2019
Hyper-V
We chose Hyper-V to create our virtual infrastructure for our on premise servers. Our current hardware was at end of life and had the opportunity to upgrade to newer hardware and have enough space for more servers.
- Virtual Environment
- Scale-ability
- Ease of use
- None that I have noticed.
November 29, 2018
Hyper-V is powerful and well integrated with Windows, albeit not the easiest or fastest virtualization software out there.
I currently use Hyper-V with two clients to virtualize a number of different functions. Specifically, I have VMs acting as domain controllers, Linux servers, and a QuickBooks server. Using Hyper-V to virtualize these machines allows for more easy management, especially if a restart is required, as that can be done remotely without worry of the machine not turning back on. In addition, the entire VM can be backed up and restored in the case of a catastrophic failure. Finally, using Hyper-V allows me to have multiple single purposes machines running on a single higher powered physical machine.
- Hyper-V is deeply integrated with Windows Server, and works with the built-in Windows Server backup software, as such a 3rd party backup solution is not required.
- In general, Hyper-V is easy to set up. There are a number of different options to choose from, but they are laid out in a logical manner and explained fairly well within the Hyper-V interface.
- Hyper-V's virtual disks (.vhdx) are extremely flexible and robust. They support dynamic resizing, i.e. you can create a 1TB disk that will show up as 1TB within the VM, but on the real machine the vhdx will only be as big as the amount of data within the VM.
- Microsoft provides a plethora of support documents for Hyper-V usage.
- Hyper-V's support for non-Windows based OS' (i.e. Linux) is only OK. You can certainly virtualize a Linux machine, but it's integration with the rest of Windows is limited, and it's performance is only OK.
- Adding an external hard drive (USB or otherwise) to a VM is clunky at best, as it requires the physical to be set to offline via the Disk Management snap-in before it can be added to the VM.
- Backing up a VM can be lesson in frustration at times. While a VM can be easily backed up using Windows Server backup - when an issue arises with the backup, it can be very difficult tracking down exactly what the issue is.
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 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.
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.
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 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.