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TrustRadius Insights for Hyper-V are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Cost-effectiveness: Users consistently praise the cost-effectiveness of Hyper-V in comparison to VMware ESXi, making it a budget-friendly virtualization option that meets their financial needs. The lower upfront costs and potential savings on licensing fees are key factors driving user satisfaction with Hyper-V's affordability.

Efficient resource utilization: Many users have highlighted Hyper-V's efficiency in terms of speed of deployment and resource utilization. The automation and PowerShell accessibility contribute to streamlined operations and optimal resource allocation, resulting in improved productivity for IT teams managing virtual environments.

Disaster recovery features: The ability of Hyper-V to create backup copies of virtual machines for disaster recovery purposes has been well-received by users. This feature provides an added layer of security and peace of mind for maintaining business continuity during unforeseen events, demonstrating the reliability and robustness of Hyper-V as a virtualization solution.

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Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees)

Hyper-V is awesome

Rating: 10 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have 6 Hyper-V hosts and over 100 VMs. Most of the VMs are a Microsoft operating system from 2003 to 2012r2 and Windows 7, 8 and 10 for the vdi environment. We also have several Linux guests as well. We are migrating from 2008r2 hosts to a 2012r2 cluster. It has served us very well and saved the college thousands of dollars a year in software costs. We do use Virtual Machine Manager to manage the virtual environment and we will be implementing Hyper-V replicas for business continuity in the near future.

Pros

  • It is easy to get started.
  • If you are a Microsoft shop, you have to buy the server OS licenses any way and it saves the other hypervisor costs.
  • It works and just continues to run.

Cons

  • Permissions to individual VMs in a large environment can be difficult to get set up properly.
  • Third party integration is still developing.
  • Would like to see a broader adoption.

Likelihood to Recommend

I have not found too many situations that Hyper-V is not a fit. It is great to get started with a test/dev environment to get familiar with it then start rolling it out to production. I like being able to just copy the virtual hard disk (VHD) from my desktop to the server and turn it on.
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Lee Weers
Director of ITS Infrastructure in Information Technology at Central College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees)
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7 years of experience
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