Hyper-V Manufacturing Reviews & Insights

Score8.4 out of 10

274 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

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.

Hyper-V Reviews

4 Reviews

ManufacturingAutomotive1Food Production1Defense & Space1Biotechnology1

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

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 28, 2020

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

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

Cons

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.

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.

Eric Oliveira

Analista de sistemas sênior in Information Technology at General Motors (Automotive, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Great Hypervisor for IT and More

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 4, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Hyper-V is our bare-metal hypervisors. Anything that we run on-premise resides on a Hyper-V virtual machine. Our Hyper-V implementation is simple, with local storage on the servers and no failover clustering.

Pros

Hyper-V is free. Totally free. No feature limits aside from the lack of a GUI on the server itself, but so long as you have a Windows workstation, you can manage it remotely.
Remote management is excellent, and the default way to interact with the hypervisor.
PowerShell is extensively supported and very powerful. If you have complex needs or like to get your hands dirty, the tools are very powerful.
It's a very stable platform. Our hypervisors require so little maintenance it's a dream. And the virtual machines are also stable and fast.

Cons

There are some options not present in the GUI tools. It seems features are implemented with PowerShell commands before being brought to the GUI.
Hyper-V will sometimes be a bit slower to pick up new virtualization technologies like GPU sharing, as compared with VMware or even Microsoft's own Azure.

Likelihood to Recommend

Hyper-V has been a very reliable hypervisor for use in an IT organization. It's free, well documented, and powerful. Where it may fall short is in a Linux shop, where existing tools and skills would be better spent on a nix hypervisor. Virtual networking support on Hyper-V is also not as advanced as something like VMware, potentially important for web hosting projects.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (Biotechnology company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Hyper-V is friend to CFO and SysAdmin alike

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

August 9, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Hyper-V in production as well as for testing. Hyper-V is handy because it's available on all Windows servers and it's free. Microsoft has created a pretty competitive product in the virtualization space. Its major competitor being VMware's ESXi. Hyper-V can be managed via SCVMM or individually on each host system. It has the native Windows look and feel to it, which is a real advantage for shortening learning curves and adoption. It's easy to implement, to use, and to manage. Microsoft has taken the financial sting out of virtualization by making it part of its server product. Hyper-V, like all virtualization technologies, makes business sense because it leverages hardware resources that would otherwise go wasted. For example, a standard database server might cost $8,000, but only might be utilized in the range of 30 to 40 percent. Virtualization takes that same $8,000 server and hosts many types of systems including the database system, which saves a lot of money on hardware infrastructure.

Pros

Hyper-V is native Windows, so it's optimized for the Windows platform. Virtual machines are very well behaved in this environment, which is a great benefit for administrators.
Hyper-V is very easy to implement and to use. A short learning curve is essential for maintaining a high level of productivity in a business. Even the newest of administrators can become proficient almost immediately with Hyper-V.
Hyper-V is flexible in which type of hardware you can use for host systems. This is especially cost-effective in businesses where IT budgets are already stretched. Being able to use a wide range of hardware systems as hosts helps maximize hardware utilization while keeping costs down because small shops don't have to go out and spend tens of thousands of dollars on the latest and greatest hardware. You can pretty much use what you have on hand, with few exceptions.

Cons

Hyper-V doesn't support some of the more cost-effective storage systems such as GlusterFS. It's unfortunate because while Hyper-V is certainly cost-effective, good leveraged storage solutions to support it are not.
I wish Hyper-V had the capability similar to VMware's DRS so that VMs could move about to balance utilization without having to use SCVMM and SCOM to get similar capabilities. SCVMM and SCOM are really too expensive and heavy for smaller shops that need DRS without the overhead.

Likelihood to Recommend

Hyper-V is well-suited to smaller environments and those that have budgetary constraints. It's also very good for those businesses that need an inexpensive virtualization solution but also doesn't want to go open source. There are a few limitations with using Hyper-V but careful planning and good administration can overcome most of them. If I were asked to build a large (>100 systems) mission-critical environment, I wouldn't use Hyper-V. It's good for smaller installations, but VMware is really more scalable and better suited to large environments. Some might disagree that Hyper-V falls short but for my money, VMware is the better choice in those situations. I really like Hyper-V, but you have to be ready to make some concessions for its shortcomings.

Kenneth Hess

Senior Systems Analyst in Information Technology at CymSTAR, LLC (Defense & Space, 201-500 employees)

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7 years of experience

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Why Hyper-V

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 9, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I designed, built out and currently manage several Active, Passive Win2012R2 (migrated from a 2008R2 cluster I build originally) Hyper-V clusters using an EqualLogic SAN storage group as the shared storage array (this reduced total server install base from 98 at two locations to 18 at four locations).

Pros

Extremely easy to manage and cluster.
Exceptionally robust and able to recover from disaster very well.
The product makes good use of available system resources.

Cons

It has a way to go in VDI. While the functionality is fully there it is more difficult to deploy than Citrix or VMware.
It needs a better way to upgrade the virtualization framework drivers between revisions and when it is updated for the host system.

Likelihood to Recommend

Hyper-V is as good as VMware and much better than Citrix and the only place it is more difficult to use is in the VDI space.

Samuel Brunson

Sr. Infrastructure Administrator in Information Technology at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (Food Production, 1001-5000 employees)

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5 years of experience

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Hyper-V is friend to CFO and SysAdmin alike

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

August 9, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Hyper-V is native Windows, so it's optimized for the Windows platform. Virtual machines are very well behaved in this environment, which is a great benefit for administrators.
Hyper-V is very easy to implement and to use. A short learning curve is essential for maintaining a high level of productivity in a business. Even the newest of administrators can become proficient almost immediately with Hyper-V.
Hyper-V is flexible in which type of hardware you can use for host systems. This is especially cost-effective in businesses where IT budgets are already stretched. Being able to use a wide range of hardware systems as hosts helps maximize hardware utilization while keeping costs down because small shops don't have to go out and spend tens of thousands of dollars on the latest and greatest hardware. You can pretty much use what you have on hand, with few exceptions.

Cons

Hyper-V doesn't support some of the more cost-effective storage systems such as GlusterFS. It's unfortunate because while Hyper-V is certainly cost-effective, good leveraged storage solutions to support it are not.
I wish Hyper-V had the capability similar to VMware's DRS so that VMs could move about to balance utilization without having to use SCVMM and SCOM to get similar capabilities. SCVMM and SCOM are really too expensive and heavy for smaller shops that need DRS without the overhead.

Likelihood to Recommend

Kenneth Hess

Senior Systems Analyst in Information Technology at CymSTAR, LLC (Defense & Space, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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