Item: Hyper-V
Rating: 8
Author: Igor Dobrogorskiy

Overall Satisfaction with Hyper-V

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Return on Investment

It's easy for Windows systems administrators to learn this product.
It's not picky for hardware it uses.

Alternatives Considered

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and VMware ESXi

It's easy to start using this system as for system administrators as for users.

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi

Likelihood to Recommend

It's much better to use Hyper-V in the big clustered environment, were you do not need to deploy or remove big amounts of VMs everyday. It's also good to use it for personal use on a workstation.

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Hyper-V for growing company.