Hyper-V, the best
November 21, 2017

Hyper-V, the best

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Hyper-V

Hyper-V is used across our whole organization as well as across the organizations of our main big customers. It is obviously used for virtualizing the servers. It makes sure we can easily set up redundancy and fail-over. tI also enables us to easily backup and restore in case of DR, even to different hardware.
  • using single jbods attached to several physical servers
  • fail-over
  • legacy OS
  • snapshots
  • attach USB devices
  • The ROI is mainly felt when you recover from hardware failure which requires a new server.
  • You also get great profit when you need several servers.
  • If you use the fully licensed version you also make good returns on the OSs which don't need further licensing.
  • VMWare
I have mainly experience with VMWare. Though the two are making sure to follow each other's innovations and VMWare was on the market first and therefore had a big headstart, I currently prefer Hyper-V. One big reason is since most of our customers use Windows Server, Hyper-V is already included in their OS.
Any organization big enough to use AD should install it on top of Hyper-V in my opinion to streamline Disaster Recovery scenarios. Also when several server roles are needed it should be used to install then across different (virtual) instances. It is also great for test environments as you can install, or even re-image pre-installed, OSs

Hyper-V Feature Ratings

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