Hyper-V is awesome
October 09, 2015
Hyper-V is awesome
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
2008 and 2012r2
Overall Satisfaction with Hyper-V
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.
- Cost avoidance
- Faster Server OS migrations
- Reduced downtime
- Reduced RTO
We compared Hyper-V beta with VMware and Hyper-V had all of the features we needed at the time. As our virtual environment has grown so has Hyper-V's capabilities. If you have to buy the OS license anyway, why pay more for the virtualization platform as well? That is what VMware never understood. For us there are no longer any features that are missing from Hyper-V.