Item: Hyper-V
Rating: 10
Author: Eric Oliveira

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Today, virtualization is essential and we can no longer retroact. I use Hyper-V virtualization software at the company, which is a technology that allows hardware virtualization on a physical computer. With it we create and manage several servers that we have as: files, backup, dns, dhcp, and others, in addition to computers. Each virtual machine is considered an isolated system and this contributes a lot and optimizes our physical spaces in the data center.

Pros and Cons

Increasing the use of hardware.
Reducing operating costs with maintenance and training.

In critical applications, it is important to have a computer that can act immediately in place of the main machine, because if it stops working, all virtualized systems that run on it will also be stopped.
Overload of device resources: can affect all virtual machines.

Return on Investment

Cost reduction and TCO.
Improves business agility.

Alternatives Considered

VMware ESXi

Microsoft's virtualization with Hyper-V has given us a great opportunity to increase the availability of services, thus increasing the satisfaction of our end user. With Microsoft virtualization, we have increased availability as follows:

Improved service levels.
Reduced service interruptions.
Improving desktop business continuity.
Providing access to applications regardless of location.
Reduced time to deploy applications and user data.

Support Rating

Microsoft's virtualization with Hyper-V helps us daily and we have never had any technical problems, errors and failures. It is an extremely reliable solution. Hyper-V provides us with a lot of security and reliability because as each virtual machine works independently of the others, a problem that arises in one of them - as a security vulnerability, will not affect the others. Also, migration and expansion became easier because changing the virtualization environment service is now a task that can be done quickly, as well as expanding the infrastructure.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Cisco ASA, Huawei Ethernet Switches, Kaspersky Endpoint Security

Likelihood to Recommend

Better use of the company's existing infrastructure: when executing various services on a server or set of machines, for example, one can take advantage of the processing capacity of this equipment as close as possible to its totality;
The number of machines is smaller: with the best use of existing resources, the need to acquire new equipment has greatly decreased in the company, as well as the consequent expenses with installation, physical space, refrigeration, maintenance, energy consumption, among others.

With Hyper-V we take advantage of the best resources and have an increase in productivity.

Overall Satisfaction with Hyper-V