Overview
Hyper-V. Rock solid environment for your VM's
Hypervisor for the Budget Conscious
Hyper-V, the best place to step on to virtual server management.
Hyper-V ,Great Technology for Virtualization
2nd best
Cost effective technology and Multitasking capabilities.
If you use Windows servers, Hyper-V is the best affordable choice.
Cloud Platform and Extremely Powerful Data Extraction Platform and Easy Interface to Get Started.
Short review on Hyper-V
Our scope of …
Hyper-V is a good product to quickly setup lab environments or test machines on your local computer
Hyper-V is great for the right scenarios. Remains basic, but does the job and is easy to use.
Best Industry and Academic Virtualization Environment Provider
Low cost and familiar solution
Hyper-V great virtualisation in a Windows environment
Hyper-V - good for non-profits
Awards
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Popular Features
- Live virtual machine backup (62)9.797%
- Hypervisor-level security (65)9.292%
- Live virtual machine migration (65)8.484%
- Management console (70)6.464%
Pricing
Developer
$24.95
Bronze
$49.00
Silver
$89.00
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Demos
Installation demo of GUI for Hyper-V 2012, 2012 R2 & 2016 Core
hyper v windows 10 - virtual machine | Microsoft Hyper-V (tutorial)
Hyper-V Dynamic Memory and Remote FX Demo
vtUtilities Demo
Configuring and running the AX 2012 Hyper-V image with VirtualBox
Step 2 - Setting up the Hyper-V Admin Console using RSAT for Windows 7
Features
Server Virtualization
Server virtualization allows multiple operating systems to be run completely independently on a single server
- 9.2Virtual machine automated provisioning(58) Ratings
Automation of virtual machine provisioning through use of vm templates
- 6.4Management console(70) Ratings
Management console for central administration of vm environment
- 9.7Live virtual machine backup(62) Ratings
Ability to backup vms without interrupting service
- 8.4Live virtual machine migration(65) Ratings
Downtime minimization by migrating live vms between hosts and across clusters
- 9.2Hypervisor-level security(65) Ratings
Hypervisor-level security including antivirus and anti-malware
Product Details
- About
- Integrations
- Tech Details
What is Hyper-V?
Hyper-V Integrations
Hyper-V Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Comparisons
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Reviews and Ratings
(270)Community Insights
- Pros
- Cons
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.
Cumbersome Management of Storage: Several users have found the management of storage in Hyper-V to be cumbersome, especially when compared to VMware ESXi. They highlighted the lack of a separate panel for LUNs/data stores as a significant drawback.
Lack of macOS Support: Users have pointed out the absence of macOS support as a limitation of Hyper-V. This has been mentioned alongside initial difficulties faced in implementing clustered shared volume.
Performance Concerns for Heavy Workloads: Some users have raised concerns about potential performance issues when running heavy workload applications and databases on Hyper-V. This issue has been noted as an area that needs improvement by users.
Attribute Ratings
- 8Likelihood to Renew6 ratings
- 9Availability1 rating
- 9Performance1 rating
- 8.3Usability7 ratings
- 7.5Support Rating16 ratings
- 9Online Training1 rating
- 8In-Person Training1 rating
- 5Implementation Rating3 ratings
- 9Configurability1 rating
- 9Product Scalability1 rating
- 7Ease of integration1 rating
- 9Vendor pre-sale1 rating
- 9Vendor post-sale1 rating
Reviews
(1-25 of 70)Hyper-V. Rock solid environment for your VM's
- Good performance
- Availavility
- Reliability
- DR integration with third party solutions / partners
- OS updates may require rebooting the server. Too many updates monthly
Hypervisor for the Budget Conscious
- Integration with Microsoft System Center.
- MS Windows administrative users have a head start with using Hyper-V as it is a familiar product.
- It's very cost effective compared to VMware ESXi.
- We manage Hyper-V using both System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and the in-build Hyper-V administration tool, the former being the main product we use as the built-in tool is very light on functionality, unlike VMware ESXi.
- Management of storage is not great and quite a shift away from how VMware does it with ESXi; there is no separate panel/blade/window for LUNs/data stores, which means there is a lot of back and forth when trying to manage storage.
- A dedicated client with all functionality in one place would be awesome.
- Having the equivalent of ESXi's virtual console is something which is absolutely needed.
- Speed of deployment.
- Cost versus resources.
- Automation and PowerShell accessibility.
- Control System integration could be improved.
- Better documentation.
- Interchangeability of hard drives (VHD, VHDX, first gen/second gen).
Hyper-V ,Great Technology for Virtualization
- Hyper-V allows us to test the software and tools on multiple operating systems
- Hyper-V allows us to create multiple virtual machines on a single physical server
- Hyper-V helps to reduce the cost and count of physical servers in data center
- Microsoft provides great support and maintenance
- Heavy work load application and database might face some performance issues
- Disk management needs to improve
2nd best
- DR and Backup - Hyper-V can make backup copies of VM's and store them elsewhere.
- Supports live migrations, storage migrations, and import/export.
- Does not support macOS.
- Clustered shared volume is difficult to implement at first.
Cost effective technology and Multitasking capabilities.
- Easy to create multiple virtual machines and manage multiple OS on a single physical hardware.
- Easy to run software that require an older version.
- Easy to test software on multiple OS.
- Applications that requires GPUs for processing, does not work well.
- High-precision applications have issues running on VM.
Tese solutions make it easy to plan and execute BCP and recovery of the systems.
- Microsoft gives us useful supports and maintenances, technical informations about Hyper-V and other related solutions.
- We would like to be able to backup and restore cluster shared volumes and VM shared volumes more easily.
Cloud Platform and Extremely Powerful Data Extraction Platform and Easy Interface to Get Started.
- Useful data migration solution.
- Support team is active and reliable.
- Quality business data management functionalities.
- Only setting the interface security when getting started with Hyper-V.
- On feedback collection from multiple data processing operations.
- Customizing deep functionalities of Hyper-V when new to the product.
Short review on Hyper-V
Our scope of use case has two main cases first having virtual servers to update/upgrade servers easily/revert changes or bring servers back online from backups and also having virtual clients for testing new applications, group policy rules, and other organizational changes
- Editing configuration of virtual machines.
- Installing Windows operating system based VM client computer easier than rivals.
- Efficient resource use and management.
- Able to use usb drives for operating system installation without needing .iso file.
- Dedicated gpu virtualisation could be easier for VMs.
- The console interface could be improved and shows a small thumbnail of running machines.
Hyper-V is a good product to quickly setup lab environments or test machines on your local computer
- Ability to create new machines.
- Change the configuration of machines, like memory or CPU.
- Export import virtual machines from/to another Hyper-V environment.
- The network configuration for the machines is not that easy to set up. E.g. to have them contact the internet, for example, create VLANs.
- Snapshot management can be a bit more user-friendly. A good overview of snapshots is missing.
- The efficiency of resource usage can be better.
Hyper-V is great for the right scenarios. Remains basic, but does the job and is easy to use.
- Easy to use GUI - very easy for someone with sufficient Windows experience - not necessarily a system administrator.
- Provisioning VMs with different OSes - we mostly rely on different flavors of Windows Server, but having a few *nix distributions was not that difficult.
- Managing virtual networks - we usually have 1 or 2 VLANs for our business purposes, but we are happy with the outcomes.
- Hyper-V is very slow to adapt to trends in infrastructure and its features are very basic when compared to the offerings from VMWare and some other companies.
- For instance, VMWare has implemented a built-in Kubernetes cluster provisioning feature (that comes with a specific license that costs extra of course).
- Hyper-V's infrastructure monitoring is very basic and altering is non-existent. It's up to the system administrators to either create or install separate monitoring & alerting solutions.
- Hyper-V cannot handle some virtualization needs all that well - my example is with VM backups and snapshots. Both of these are supposed to fulfill specific needs, but there are a number of gotchas in each of those cases (easily corruptible VHD files, gradually growing in size snapshots) that an administrator needs to address occasionally - administration overhead where you would not expect it.
- Virtualization
- Executing different operating system versions.
- Secure access to files & resource with limits.
- Hyper-V public API commands can be improved to automate security analysis.
- Only available on windows 10 pro version.
Low cost and familiar solution
- Ease of Use.
- Low Entry Cost.
- Quick Deployment.
- Improved backup system.
- Better central management.
Hyper-V great virtualisation in a Windows environment
- Server Virtualisation.
- Transfer to different host.
- Good integration.
- It works best in a Windows environment.
Hyper-V - good for non-profits
- Ease of creating new virtual machines.
- Integrates with Microsoft environment seamlessly.
- Provides central management of all server images.
- Provisioning of virtual machines can be unclear at first.
- Networking could be easier.
Hyper-V Virtualizes your Business!
- Virtualize resources, all for one physical server to host many Virtual Machines
- Provide easy disaster recovery and replication
- Very very cost effective.
- Scaling for large environments. No comparable solution to VMWares vCenter.
- Failover of a VM to more than one host is limited.
Hyper-V is good for thee
- 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
Hyper-V A Better Solution For Learning & Testing.
- It provide you the use of Secondary Machine on the top of your Current Machine.
- We can use our hardware more efficiently with the help of Hyper-v.
- We can make development and testing more efficient.
- There should we a separate security solutions for the hyper-v.
- Using Hyper-V it gives laggy experience.
- It should be more efficient while running hyper v on our machine.
Microsoft Hyper-v pluses and minuses
- Lower cost
- Virtualization of Windows servers
- VDI infrastructure of Windows desktop
- Flexible
- Networking
- Managability
- Add-on tools
Great way to manage a virtual environment
- Managing and distributing physical resources into different virtual servers.
- The Hyper-V administrator interface could use some more features.
- Could have a graphical log to check the usage of resources.
Easy on the budget, no support.
- virtualization
- virtual disks
- remote management
- Better network handling
- If the hypervisor crashes ALL vms crash
- Have to update hypervisors
- Hypervisor
- Populating with virtual machines
- Redundancy and replication
- Not so difficult to setup outside the normal usage
- Storage spaces direct is quite difficult to understand and setup
- Centralized dashboard
- Hyper-V is both fairly easy to learn while being robust in its capability of taking one physical server and turning it into multiple functioning systems for user consumption.
- One of the gigantic strengths of Hyper-V is the fact that it is included with Windows Server.
- When used in conjunction with Windows Clustering, Hyper-V goes from just being a virtualization product to also being a Disaster Recovery product. Setting up multiple hosts in a cluster, if all of them have the capability of hosting all machines at once, allows one to know that if one host goes off line the other hosts will pick up the slack and keep the virtual instances running.
- Since Hyper-V is free and a MS product there is copious free support for it on the web. Most issues and questions can be dealt with just by doing some searching.
- Hyper-V's snapshot feature can sometimes be a little clunky and cause issues removing the snapshots. Most problems are easily rectified but it is a weak point of the software.
- Host Servers that have Hyper-V installed on them, if there are a lot of servers, becoming fairly useless when it comes to being used for other functions...both in a literal sense and licensing sense.
- Despite the product being free with MS server, the new licensing scheme MS has available makes it more costly to host Hyper-V instances when one wants more than two per physical host.
The only time I can think it would be less appropriate is the case where someone wants a server to have full, un limited access to a hardware based disc system and does not want any competition for the use of the system.
Hyper-V - Best for virtualization needs
- Maintenance
- Restores
- Linux limitations
- Supports a limited number of guest OS choices
With Hyper-V we take advantage of the best resources and have an increase in productivity.
- 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.
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.