Hyper-V Review
September 18, 2017
Hyper-V Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Hyper-V
We use Hyper-V to support our private cloud for development and consulting purposes. Using Hyper-V provides us tremendous flexibility. We're able to run many VMs on a single host and use it to replicate many different environments for testing.
- I like the snapshot feature where you can take a snapshot of the VM and later apply that snapshot if you want to roll back your changes.
- The dynamic memory is a very nice feature. This allows the host computer to allocate memory to a VM as it is needed.
- It is nice being able to use PowerShell to manage the hyper-v service and the VM management process.
- There is nothing that I'd like to see done differently. It is simply a great product.
- We were able to build environments that we used for software development. These environments could then be customized, turned off, and saved for later use. Months could then go by and when the environment was restarted it was great to know that the software would be in exactly the same state as when we last used it.
- We use VMs for demo purposes. These environments too are configured, backed up, and then shut down. When we need to do a demo we can easily spin up an environment and be confident that the demo will run smoothly.
We have used and do use the Azure as well. However, having hyper-v on premise is nice because we don't get charged each time we spin up a VM. In addition, it is simpler to take snapshots and roll back using hyper-v.
Azure is great too however, as there are so many resources that you can easily spin up without worrying about the install process yourself. Things such as Redis Cache, CosmoDb, etc.
Azure is great too however, as there are so many resources that you can easily spin up without worrying about the install process yourself. Things such as Redis Cache, CosmoDb, etc.