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I like that it's easy for infrastructure design/deployments. You can literally get an entire network designed and deployed within a single day. It also benefits from extensive documentation and a large knowledge base, which makes troubleshooting a bit easier. Another major advantage is its strong integration with the broader Microsoft ecosystem, making it a natural fit for organizations already invested in Microsoft technologies.
Native Windows integration, WSL2 performance, and providing excellent virtualization for using Linux images. No additional costs a part from the enterprise OS licenses is required.
Hyper-V feels like it's an architectural shift in how the PC handles resources. One of its great strengths is its type-1 Architecture meaning they run directly on the hardware and the Windows OS runs on top of it which results in excellent CPU performance. Hyper-V is also great for its dynamic memory management, so anyone can run multiple VMs on a single machine and it dynamically expands and shrinks the memory allocated to each guest based on real-time demand. One other strength of Hyper-V is that we can run commands inside a VM via the host's terminal without needing a network connection or RDP.
What I dislike most about Hyper-V is that it can become expensive and less practical as infrastructure grows, especially when you start scaling beyond a smaller or mid-sized environment. The necessity in upgrading hardware every few years was always a massive capital strain which meant having to discard or slow other projects for the sake of upgrading servers for our Hyper-V environment. It also has some complexity in configuration and ongoing management, particularly when you get into more advanced features or larger deployments. Another downside is that over time it can contribute to technical debt, especially in environments that are built around older Microsoft-centric architectures and end up with more dependencies that are harder to modernize later.
As mentioned in the review, hardware requirements needed specific CPU features. On my older laptop it was not working and i needed hardware replacement (with the overhead of having to configure everything again). Also i feel like memory consumption is too high sometimes. When using similar tools on windows they look to be more optimized.
The main issue I felt is its frustrating Virtual Networking Logic. If you move from a wired connection to Wi-fi, or if the drivers update, then the bridge often breaks, and youre stuck with no internet on a VM. Another issue is the lack of native USB passthrough; you have to either use enhanced session mode or go through a tedious process of taking the disk offline on the host to attach it to the guest. The interface looks very old dated and is clunky, lacking modern features.