The not so Hyper virtualization platform Hyper-V
June 06, 2016
The not so Hyper virtualization platform Hyper-V
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with 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.
- Ultimately we did not choose Hyper-V due to the limitations mentioned previously.
While Hyper-V did stack better for our needs than Proxmox VE or KVM, it did not offer the features that ESXi did for our needs and we had to forgo choosing Hyper-V for the promiscuous mode needs.