Hyper-V. Rock solid environment for your VM's
Rating: 8 out of 10
June 15, 2023
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Verified User
7 years of experience
- Positive: no licensing cost
- Easy to manage
- Easy to use
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Hyper-V. Rock solid environment for your VM's
Rating: 8 out of 10
June 15, 2023Hyper-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...
Verified user
Manager
7 years of experienceHypervisor for the Budget Conscious
Rating: 10 out of 10
June 13, 2023Hyper-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 ...
Verified user
Manager
3 years of experienceHyper-V, the best place to step on to virtual server management.
Rating: 9 out of 10
August 17, 2022Hyper-V was used to extend our ability to quickly prototype and build server infrastructure. We also were using it to develop 'golden images' or other troubleshooting techniqu...
Verified user
Analyst
8 years of experienceHyper-V ,Great Technology for Virtualization
Rating: 10 out of 10
April 4, 2022Hyper-V is a great technology that allows us to create virtual machines and helps us to maintain multiple operating systems on a single physical server. This technology allows...
Debopriya Bhattacharya
Administrator - Information Technology
AIX Administrator
Kyndryl Solution Pvt Ltd
4 years of experience2nd best
Rating: 8 out of 10
April 4, 2022We used to use Hyper-V in our organization for our virtualized workloads. Hyper-Vprovides a solution for growing organizations that have way too much of a physical presence. W...
Verified user
Administrator
5 years of experienceCost effective technology and Multitasking capabilities.
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 31, 2022Excellent technology that lets us easily create virtual machines environment and helps manage multiple operating systems on a single physical server. It enables me to quickly ...
If you use Windows servers, Hyper-V is the best affordable choice.
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 30, 2022We use 5 physical servers and run over 60 virtual servers. We user the latest version of the host server OS, because of connectivity to Azure services, use Site Recovery and A...
Verified user
General Manager
10 years of experienceCloud Platform and Extremely Powerful Data Extraction Platform and Easy Interface to Get Started.
Rating: 9 out of 10
March 27, 2022This is an easy system with intuitive capabilities for effective virtualization and great functions for multiple big data transportation across other platforms through Cloud s...
Short review on Hyper-V
Rating: 8 out of 10
March 25, 2022We 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...
Taner Imamoglu
Professional - Information Technology
Senior Information Technology Specialist
Öksüt Madencilik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.
5 years of experienceHyper-V is a good product to quickly setup lab environments or test machines on your local computer
Rating: 7 out of 10
March 25, 2022In our organization, Hyper-V is mostly used to create a separate test environment. These are labs that consist of one or more machines, mostly Microsoft Windows operating syst...
Verified user
Engineer
5 years of experienceHyper-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, 2022Hyper-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...
Best Industry and Academic Virtualization Environment Provider
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 25, 2022We use Hyper-V to test malware and security analysis over binary research at the lab. Hyper-V pretty much provides a virtualization layer from the host machine to securely tes...
Verified user
Engineer
3 years of experienceLow cost and familiar solution
Rating: 9 out of 10
March 25, 2022Hyper-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 ...
Brian Cook
Vice-President - Customer Service
Information Security Officer
Unified Technology Solutions, Inc.
6 years of experienceHyper-V great virtualisation in a Windows environment
Rating: 8 out of 10
March 25, 2022We run almost all our servers virtualized and Hyper-V was the best and most cost-effective option. Especially in an almost full Windows Environment.
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Professional
4 years of experienceHyper-V - good for non-profits
Rating: 9 out of 10
March 25, 2022We use Hyper-V to run all our production servers. Since we have Windows Server Datacenter, we are not restricted in the number of virtual machines we can run. Since we have on...
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Director
5 years of experience
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Cost-effectiveness: Users consistently praise the cost-effectiveness of Hyper-V in comparison to VMware ESXi, making it a budget-friendly virtualization option that meets their financial needs. The lower upfront costs and potential savings on licensing fees are key factors driving user satisfaction with Hyper-V's affordability.
Efficient resource utilization: Many users have highlighted Hyper-V's efficiency in terms of speed of deployment and resource utilization. The automation and PowerShell accessibility contribute to streamlined operations and optimal resource allocation, resulting in improved productivity for IT teams managing virtual environments.
Disaster recovery features: The ability of Hyper-V to create backup copies of virtual machines for disaster recovery purposes has been well-received by users. This feature provides an added layer of security and peace of mind for maintaining business continuity during unforeseen events, demonstrating the reliability and robustness of Hyper-V as a virtualization solution.
Cumbersome Management of Storage: Several users have found the management of storage in Hyper-V to be cumbersome, especially when compared to VMware ESXi. They highlighted the lack of a separate panel for LUNs/data stores as a significant drawback.
Lack of macOS Support: Users have pointed out the absence of macOS support as a limitation of Hyper-V. This has been mentioned alongside initial difficulties faced in implementing clustered shared volume.
Performance Concerns for Heavy Workloads: Some users have raised concerns about potential performance issues when running heavy workload applications and databases on Hyper-V. This issue has been noted as an area that needs improvement by users.
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Hypervisor for the Budget Conscious
Rating: 10 out of 10
June 13, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
- We effectively saved c.£50K a year by not renewing our ESXi licensing and moving over to Hyper-V.
- Hyper-V's management console isn't as feature rich as VMware ESXi.
- Hyper-V has given us back stability in our virtual estate.
Hyper-V, the best place to step on to virtual server management.
Rating: 9 out of 10
August 17, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
8 years of experience
- Easy to spin up on devices.
- Low barrier to entry on personal devices if hardware permits.
- Great training tools.
Hyper-V ,Great Technology for Virtualization
Rating: 10 out of 10
April 04, 2022
DB
Vetted Review
Verified User
4 years of experience
- Hyper-V helps to reduce the data center infrastructure cost and physical server count
- Hyper-V maintains the load balance of physical servers
- Resource scalability
- Hyper-V allows us to create the multiple VMs on a single physical server
2nd best
Rating: 8 out of 10
April 04, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
5 years of experience
- ROI was high, we were able to consolidate our DC.
- Going from standalone to Hyper-V saved us a lot of management overhead.
Cost effective technology and Multitasking capabilities.
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 31, 2022
SA
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Flexible virtual machines.
- Run multiple operating systems.
- Secure virtual machines in its own isolated space.
If you use Windows servers, Hyper-V is the best affordable choice.
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 30, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
10 years of experience
- One host server's network issue that related physical servers firmware issue made all servers occur network issue, cluster storage down and network session issue and so on.
Cloud Platform and Extremely Powerful Data Extraction Platform and Easy Interface to Get Started.
Rating: 9 out of 10
March 27, 2022
AW
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Hyper-V is easy to use and manage multiple data migration processes.
- Cloud services Automation and easy virtualization product.
- Reporting and data source functionalities are very reliable.
- Secure data management and easy data extraction platform.
Short review on Hyper-V
Rating: 8 out of 10
March 25, 2022
TI
Vetted Review
Verified User
5 years of experience
- With Hyper-V implementing new software or rules on a test, beds take fewer resources and time which is a great bonus.
- Virtual SAN management and Virtual Switch management make it easy to manage network and storage options.
- Editing the disk option made us resize disks on the fly and saved us maintenance, production time, and costs.
Hyper-V is a good product to quickly setup lab environments or test machines on your local computer
Rating: 7 out of 10
March 25, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
5 years of experience
- It's integrated in the Windows 10/11 OS. No additional costs.
- It costs less time to setup reproductions when using virtual machines.
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
BT
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
- Because Hyper-V licenses were essentially free, that allowed us to have multiple Hyper-V-based hosts for our business needs.
- Ease of use - the people who manage Hyper-V were able to do so very quickly because of the ease of use of the product.
Best Industry and Academic Virtualization Environment Provider
Rating: 10 out of 10
March 25, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
- Well defined research lab environment improved 10x productivity.
- Isolated test results without any bias improved 10x results.
Low cost and familiar solution
Rating: 9 out of 10
March 25, 2022
BC
Vetted Review
6 years of experience
- Low/no cost makes ROI very attractive.
- The fact it already exists on most server installs means little to no downtime for deployment.
- Minimizes costs as upgrading RAM is much cheaper then additional servers.
Hyper-V great virtualisation in a Windows environment
Rating: 8 out of 10
March 25, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
4 years of experience
- It brought down our virtualisation cost.
- It integrated in our Windows Domain.
- One less OS to worry about.
Hyper-V - good for non-profits
Rating: 9 out of 10
March 25, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
5 years of experience
- Hyper-V has helped us retire servers that were over 10 years old.
- Hyper-V simplified server management, returning precious time to IT staff.
Hyper-V Virtualizes your Business!
Rating: 9 out of 10
March 25, 2022
JJ
Vetted Review
12 years of experience
- Low cost
- Easy virtualization deployment
- Great security.
Hyper-V is good for thee
Rating: 9 out of 10
March 25, 2022
BT
Vetted Review
Verified User
13 years of experience
- My datacenter has not needed to get any bigger even though I added 30 servers
- Less power consumption as well as cooling
- Easy to do maintenance on hosts with Live Migration
Hyper-V A Better Solution For Learning & Testing.
Rating: 8 out of 10
March 24, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
- It cost too much while using this.
- It increases the productivity ultimately helping us to generate more revenue.
Microsoft Hyper-v pluses and minuses
Rating: 7 out of 10
March 23, 2022
JM
Vetted Review
Verified User
8 years of experience
- Flexible, able to handle multiple workloads.
- It has compatibility with Windows.
- Cost of licensing the product in comparison to other alternatives.
- Setup is sometimes confusing and VMware knowledge does not always translate well.
Great way to manage a virtual environment
Rating: 8 out of 10
September 04, 2021
TL
Vetted Review
Verified User
4 years of experience
- It is completely worthwhile because the license of Windows Server includes the possibility of installing two virtual machines.
- Makes it possible to maximize the use of the owned physical resources.
- Having separate virtual machines with different services makes the infrastructure more scalable.
- If you need more than 2 virtual servers the costs grow a lot.
Easy on the budget, no support.
Rating: 8 out of 10
August 26, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
8 years of experience
- No licensing fees allow for more testing
- Basically no support, you're on your own
- Very easy to use
Hyper-V gets the job done while being included in the cost of Windows Server.
Rating: 10 out of 10
April 10, 2020
JS
Vetted Review
Verified User
10 years of experience
- Lessened Server Sprawl
- Made things simpler
- More agility
- Saved power and battery
Hyper-V is the place to be for Virtualization if you are an SMB
Rating: 10 out of 10
April 05, 2020
JR
Vetted Review
Verified User
10 years of experience
- Hyper-V has allowed us to take a small IT room and have it server up dozens of servers despite the lack of space available for hardware.
- Since it is basically free, any return from its use is a positive return on investment and the lessened power usage is a great way to show this when considering Hyper-v.
- We have had many instances of host machines blue screening or rebooting on their own and the clustering capability of Hyper-V, when used with Windows systems, has allowed these issues to be invisible to users.
Hyper-V - Best for virtualization needs
Rating: 8 out of 10
February 18, 2020
RR
Vetted Review
Verified User
6 years of experience
- Saving on hardware
- Saving on maintenance time
With Hyper-V we take advantage of the best resources and have an increase in productivity.
Rating: 10 out of 10
January 28, 2020
EO
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
- Cost reduction and TCO.
- Improves business agility.