Hyper-V is good for thee
Updated March 25, 2022
Hyper-V is good for thee
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Hyper-V
[Hyper-V] is used across the organization. It is used in USA datacenter as well as China. It addresses cost savings on physical machines
- Migrates from one host to another quite well (Live Migration)
- It uses the dynamic memory efficiently
- Allow to increase memory or hard drive without shutting down the vm
- Be able to do all configurations thru hyper v manager even with a cluster
- Small footprint in Datacenter. We have 3 hosts for 45 VMs
- Easy navigation
- My datacenter has not needed to get any bigger even though I added 30 servers
- Less power consumption as well as cooling
- Easy to do maintenance on hosts with Live Migration
I used to use VMWare and was certified but I have no justification to move off this platform. It is sufficient.
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
Hyper-V Feature Ratings
Using Hyper-V
3 - All are in IT
2 - One is a Server Admin and the other is a Desktop Admin understudying Servers
- Space Saver
- Cooling Savings
- Clustering
- Creating a lab environment
- Seamlessly adding resources like memory or diskspace
- Possibly move easily to cloud (AWS or Azure)
Evaluating Hyper-V and Competitors
- Price
- Product Reputation
Pricing was much better than VSphere. Also, I had another location already using HyperV and I wanted to standardize.
I don't believe that I would do anything different.
Upgrading Hyper-V
Yes - The upgrade went very smoothly. I was able to run in a hybrid mode that caused very little downtime if any
- More security with the latest version
- Possibly not having to shutdown VMs to increase resources