Hyper-V Great for DR
March 28, 2017

Hyper-V Great for DR

Daniel Hereford | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Hyper-V

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.
  • Hyper-V in DR allowed us to save scores of thousands annually on VMware support and licenses without us having to pay anything extra (we already have Hyper-V in our EA). Great ROI!
We are still primarily a VMware shop, but Hyper-V supports 40% of our environment. That may change over time if Hyper-V keeps getting easier to use and more third party support grows.
  • Great for branch office deployments even if your DC is VMware or other.
  • Great for leveraging a server purchase since Hyper-V is included.
  • Larger more complex infrastructures are still overwhelmingly supported on VMware from a market share perspective.

Hyper-V Feature Ratings

Virtual machine automated provisioning
7
Management console
9
Live virtual machine backup
8
Live virtual machine migration
7
Hypervisor-level security
10