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.