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“Hyper-V Offers High Availability Features and Advanced Clustering for Windows Environments”
“Enterprise Laptops Benefit From Hyper-V Yet Face High Memory Consumption Issues”
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The most liked features about the Hyper-V platform is its integration features with windows system. As an admin, I found it easy and compatible with Azure AD, Windows Server, and System Center, providing a more efficient and convenient system management and access control. It also provides reliable performance, because of its built-in system which helps to support high availability and advanced features such as failover clustering and replication gives trustworthiness towards this system.
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.
I like the GUI that it gives you. I like that I can right click on move VM's from one host to another. I like how if I reboot a host, even on accident, my VM's move over to the other side of the cluster. I also like working with VHD files as I am very familiar with them and they are easy to back up if need be.
The main limitation of Hyper-V can be caused by its advanced management and automation capabilities because it normally requires additional tools such as System Center or more advanced PowerShell scripting. Compared to other virtualization systems, cross-platform management is less intuitive, and integration with non-Windows workloads also has restrictions.
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.
I don't like that its Microsoft, so it's not very easy to get support. very expensive and sometimes it's hard to get a knowledgeable engineer on the phone. I don't like that sometimes the VM's will get stuck, and they are hard to recover, and I have to start over from scratch if they are lost in the configuration. Sometimes the GUI does take some time to load, or I have to reboot the system to get cluster manager to show up cleanly on the interface
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Hyper-V Reviews and Ratings
- It Manager<50M USDMiscellaneousReview Source
Hyper-V Offers High Availability Features and Advanced Clustering for Windows Environments
My experience with Hyper-V is truly phenomenal, normally for Windows platform. Hyper-V platform has strong integration features with Azure AD, Windows Server environments and System Center which make virtualization more efficient and strong compared to other virtualisation systems. Performance and stability are also exceptional points that need to be considered for most workloads, and built-in features such as failover clustering and replication of current system add extra reliability without the need for extra cost. - END USER VIRTUALIZATION ENGINEER50M-1B USDHealthcare and BiotechReview Source
Cluster Management and VM Recovery Challenges Noted in Hyper V Usability Experience
Hyper V is a very good product. If you are familiar with windows server, you will be able to pick up on it. - Senior Software Engineer10B+ USDManufacturingReview Source
Enterprise Laptops Benefit From Hyper-V Yet Face High Memory Consumption Issues
We use Hyper-V primarily as the virtualization layer to use WSL2 on our enterprise laptops with Windows OS. Integration with windows is seamless which is great for us to be able to handle virtualization on laptops with large amount of limitations for developers. Initial setup required admin rights and this sometimes is risky, I needed IT support for it and delayed using it. Hardware requirements: In my previous laptop it was not working as expected and i needed a laptop change. - Engineer10B+ USDTelecommunicationReview Source
Hyper-V Strong for Windows VMs but Limited Unix or Linux Workload Support
Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization solution is a solid choice for Microsoft-based virtual machines, but I feel it lacks some very important enterprise-grade features. - It Associate1B-10B USDConstructionReview Source
Cost Optimization and Security Updates Stand Out, While Support Issues Persist
Been using Microsoft's Hyper-V on a smaller scale in our datacenter to have a cost-effective solution to virtualize various servers in our environment. So far it has proved to be a reliable and cost-effective solution for us. Not quite as feature-rich as some other competing solutions though. Microsoft is constantly adding features and improving Hyper-V, but it comes with a steeper learning curve.