Hyper-V

Hyper-V

274 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Hyper-V	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	N/A	$24.95 per month

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Hyper-V

Developer: $24.95
per month
Bronze: $49.00
per month
Silver: $89.00
per month
Gold: $135.00
per month
Platinum: $199.00
per month

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Hyper-V
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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	Hyper-V
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Verified User Chose Hyper-V VMware Workstation Player and Pro are now free for Small Businesses, but Pro used to be paid and quite expensive. There are compatibility issues between those products and Windows hosts, giving that Microsoft has their own hypervisor platform already. Also, if you use Linux, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Hyper-V No extra licensing costs. It's easy to use. We haven't suffered any downtime due to virtualization problems. It's a rock solid solution. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Hyper-V Considering the maturity of ESXi, Hyper-V is something I would definitely consider using in future jobs or organisations. We selected Hyper-V after many years of using ESXi; several factors led us to this change, including a poor support experience with VMware, and the lower … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Hyper-V ESXi, to me, seems to do things better in almost every way. It is much quicker to deploy ESXi compared to Hyper-V. I also feel like Hyper-V requires more frequent updates so I'm not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing. Incentivized Helpful? Taner Imamoglu Senior Information Technology Specialist in Information Technology at Öksüt Madencilik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. (Mining & Metals, 501-1000 employees) Chose Hyper-V VMware is the pioneer of virtualization but when you compare it with Hyper-V, VMware lacks the flexibility of hardware customization and configuration options Hyper-V has also GPU virtualization still not adequate for both platforms. VMware has better graphical interface and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Hyper-V I switched to VMware Workstation Pro, after using Hyper-V for several years. The thing I missed in Hyper-V was the network management which has too less configuration options compared to VMware Workstation Pro. Also managing the snapshots was more user-friendly in VMware … Incentivized Helpful? Borislav Traykov DevOps Team Leader in Engineering at Cognyte (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Hyper-V The ease of use and essentially free license made the adoption of Hyper-V in some parts of my current and one of my previous organizations a no-brainer. For sure it's not the best product on the market, but it will do the job just fine in a lot of use cases. Automated … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Hyper-V Though Docker provides cross-platform support and isolation, Hyper-V provides true virtualization over the host OS and creates boundary over guest OS that protects the security threats, resource-hogging on the host OS. Incentivized Helpful? Brian Cook Information Security Officer in Customer Service at Unified Technology Solutions, Inc. (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Hyper-V While many have additional features or lower overhead the ease of use and low-cost licensing make Hyper-V our preferred choice for most clients. And because we are mostly a Microsoft shop and it is built on Windows when we need to troubleshoot the hypervisor itself we already … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Hyper-V It is much cheaper and has at least the same functionality as what we use. It integrates better in our Windows environment and it works more familiar with similar tools that we already use. And it is on fewer vendors, much easier for support. Very happy with the switch from … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Hyper-V Overall, VMWare appears to be more full-featured and perhaps a bit more robust, but the integration and no-cost factors of Hyper-V won the day. We have had no issues with Hyper-V since instigating it five years ago and do not regret the decision. Incentivized Helpful? Josh Justic President, Engineering Architect for Virtualization and Computing Systems. in Information Technology at NTCG, Inc. (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Hyper-V Hyper-V is much cheaper and does not have the license requirement of VMware. Hyper-V is not a product that scales like VMware and not well suited to a large datacenter. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Hyper-V Hyper-V is well suited for environmental testing purposes. Let's say you want to learn or test a new OS for a product or just for learning purposes. You are able to boot up this os in just a few mins on Hyper-V and then start working, testing, and learning with no money out of … Incentivized Helpful? Toni Lora IT Admin in Information Technology at Mepal (Building Materials, 51-200 employees) Chose Hyper-V I used VMware vSphere at another company. However, for infrastructure with only two virtual machines, the VMware license cost is not worth it, because with the Windows Server Standard license you have the possibility to install two virtual servers at no extra cost. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Hyper-V We selected Hyper-V because it was built in to Windows and had no licensing costs. The functionality was similar, VMware seemed like a more premium product, and had support. But those are the bare minimum when competing with an embedded solution. VMware is reported to be … Incentivized Helpful? Bryan Tavares IT Systems Manager in Information Technology at Shield Restraint Systems (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 201-500 employees) Chose Hyper-V I used to use VMWare and was certified but I have no justification to move off this platform. It is sufficient. Incentivized Helpful? James McCullough senior systems administrator advisor in Information Technology at NTT DATA Services (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Hyper-V Hyper-V performs very well in environment running windows operating systems and performs well under various workloads. The replication and recovery features of hyper-v work well but lack some of usability of tools such as Zerto, VMware replication and site Recovery Manager to … Incentivized Helpful? Jeffrey Sabotin Director of IT in Information Technology at RealTime Services (Financial Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Hyper-V You already have to purchase the licensing for Windows Servers so why not bundle that in with the cost of the hypervisor. VMware seems to be a better virtualization platform with a better dashboard, but if you aren't managing hundreds of physical servers across multiple data … Incentivized Helpful? Rob Rotundo Information System Analyst in Information Technology at Nasco Healthcare (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Hyper-V We went with Hyper-V since it's backed by Microsoft. Most of our businesses use MS, so going with supported products helps when we need to open a case if we run into issues. There are other alternatives, but the ease and support of Hyper-V make it our go-to product for … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Oliveira Analista de sistemas sênior in Information Technology at General Motors (Automotive, 10,001+ employees) Chose Hyper-V Microsoft's virtualization with Hyper-V has given us a great opportunity to increase the availability of services, thus increasing the satisfaction of our end user. With Microsoft virtualization, we have increased availability as follows: Improved service levels. Reduced … Incentivized Helpful? Guillermo Villamizar Account Manager in Information Technology at EXXIS GROUP \| Partner SAP Business One en Latinoamérica \| (Information Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Hyper-V Hyper-V is not only a free virtualization solution for businesses, but it's also a very stable and very intuitive environment. The learning curve for Hyper-V is very simple and there are a lot of resources online for Hyper-V. VMWare is actually the leader in the virtualization … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Hyper-V Hyper-V is powerful and virtualizes Windows exceptionally well, with less tweaking. It is also cheaper, and allows our clients to budget more for more frequent expansion. Its only real competitor in my opinion is VMware, and that is because vCenter is much more intuitive than … Incentivized Helpful? Charles R. Coggins III Technical Support Specialist II / System Admin in Information Technology at TimeTrak Systems, Inc. (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Hyper-V I really do not have a bunch of experience with VMWare or VirtualBox which I know are two other well-known Virtualization software. I have used VirtualBox a few times when I was in college to learn other operating systems, but I don't recall them being as easy to get going and … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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Features

Hyper-V

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Hyper-V
Feature	Hyper-V 8.6 71 Ratings
Virtual machine automated provisioning	9.059 Ratings
Management console	7.071 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	9.063 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	8.565 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	9.465 Ratings

User Ratings
	Hyper-V
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (72 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (6 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (8 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.5 (16 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.0 (1 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	5.0 (3 ratings)
Configurability	9.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.0 (1 ratings)