Great virtualization alternative!
January 18, 2020

Great virtualization alternative!

Guillermo Villamizar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Hyper-V

Microsoft Hyper-V is a patented Microsoft technology that allows the users to create virtual server environments and manage multiple operating systems on a single physical server. As of today, our company has very few but very powerful physical servers, and we use Hyper-V for creating multiple virtual servers with different functions for each one of them.

Pros

  • Easy to create new VMs
  • Free virtualization solution

Cons

  • Conflict with other virtualization applications
  • Load balancing not available
  • It's free, so there is no big investment.
  • It improved business continuity.
Hyper-V is not only a free virtualization solution for businesses, but it's also a very stable and very intuitive environment. The learning curve for Hyper-V is very simple and there are a lot of resources online for Hyper-V. VMWare is actually the leader in the virtualization industry, but it's a VERY expensive solution, and, ultimately, it doesn't offer that much in extra
features for the money you spend.
We still have not had the need to request support directly from Microsoft or a Microsoft partner, but there are a lot of resources online for Microsoft's Hyper-V (discussion forum, Microsoft service, etc.). The environment is very easy to set up and very intuitive to install and get up and running with no trouble.

Do you think Hyper-V delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Hyper-V's feature set?

Yes

Did Hyper-V live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Hyper-V go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Hyper-V again?

Yes

With Hyper-V, you have the ability to virtualize and manage virtually every aspect of a service. It allows you to create screenshots of the state of the machine, in order to save the state of the machine up to a certain point and continue with a copy, leaving the previous version intact.

Hyper-V Feature Ratings

Server Virtualization
6.8
Virtual machine automated provisioning
7
Management console
7
Live virtual machine backup
7
Live virtual machine migration
6
Hypervisor-level security
7

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