HyperV Pro and Cons
April 26, 2018
HyperV Pro and Cons
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Hyper-V
Hyper-V is used for a part of our development environment. It is built into Microsoft Server and easy to use. Also used in a branch office. It gives us the ease of use with both installation/configuration and managing the VMs including taking backups.
Pros
- Create VMs, move VMs around all with PowerShell.
- Creating snapshots is very easy, especially for our developers.
- Hyper-V is in itself a free product, which makes it also a good product to use it in studying from home to extend my own knowledge and experience
Cons
- The license costs can go fast when using it in a failover environment.
- The virtual switch build into the product could have a better GUI for configuration
- I would a direct build in backup function
- On the plus side, when having a datacenter license, you can very quickly create a virtual Microsoft environment.
- When you want to run SQL databases on it and have multiple Hyper-Vs you pay double which makes it less interesting from a ROI point of view
- Our dev department was helped by setting up a rather cost-saving solution to test their work on before using it in production.
- Installing Hyper-V from the same media as the windows servers.
- The default windows GUI makes Hyper-V easier to use for junior server managers.
- Hyper-V gives the feeling that you already know it, while other products like VMware and VirtualBox need their own learning curve before you start using them.
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