Hyper-V vs. Windows Server

Hyper-V

274 Reviews and Ratings

Windows Server

839 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
Windows Server	Score8.2 out of 10	N/A	N/A	N/A

Pricing

Hyper-V

Windows Server

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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Pricing Offerings
Hyper-V	Windows Server
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Hyper-V	Windows Server
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Al Oomens Network Administrator in Information Technology at Crossroads RMC (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Hyper-V Hyper-V comes with Windows Server. It works well, is easy to use and administer, and does everything we need. I see no reason to purchase additional products to do what Hyper-V already does. Plus, the option to eventually use Azure without much fuss makes it a simple choice for … 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 I've used VMware and Hyper-V. Due to Hyper-V being included with Windows for no extra charge, it makes it the default option for us. Why spend money for a 3rd-party solution when Microsoft provides one for free with the purchase of their server operating systems? It's also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Hyper-V I have used VMware Vsphere for a few edge cases such as Mac virtualization. I found the GUI to have far more options, but also found the documentation less concise. I've also used Virtual Box and VMware Fusion for desktop virtualization. Both are good and have the advantage of … Incentivized Helpful? Jeffrey Rudacille IT Manager in Information Technology at Edwards Construction Services Inc. (Construction, 51-200 employees) Chose Hyper-V Hyper-V is much less expensive than VMware, which is always a plus. It is also more friendly to new administrators trying to pick up the system for the first time. With that said I would consider VMware to be slightly more enterprise friendly when it comes to features and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Hyper-V I have mainly experience with VMWare. Though the two are making sure to follow each other's innovations and VMWare was on the market first and therefore had a big headstart, I currently prefer Hyper-V. One big reason is since most of our customers use Windows Server, Hyper-V is … Incentivized Helpful? Peter Anderson BEng MCSA System Administrator/Test Manager in Information Technology at Keysoft Solutions (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Hyper-V Hyper-V being 'free' was the main reason we went for it here. We gave VMware Workstation/Server a try when initially evaluating virtualisation options, but Hyper-V won out for ease of integration into our existing environment. VirtualBox was more of a 'plug in' solution which … Incentivized Helpful? Marc-Olivier Turgeon-Ferland System Administrator in Information Technology at Coveo (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Hyper-V Hyper-V is less advanced and less stable than VMware but it is also a lot less expensive. You get a lot of features from the start with Hyper-V where with VMware you need to add quite a bit of products (vCenter, etc.) to get basic features like clustering. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Hyper-V As already described, my impression is that Hyper-V is lacking in features that are offered by other alternatives (albeit, at a potentially lower price point). Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Hereford Chief Information Officer, EVP in Information Technology at First NBC Bank (Banking, 501-1000 employees) Chose Hyper-V We are still primarily a VMware shop, but Hyper-V supports 40% of our environment. That may change over time if Hyper-V keeps getting easier to use and more third party support grows. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Hyper-V Hyper-V can host more memory, CPUs per host, and logical processors than can VMware's vSphere, and while it is well integrated in my opinion to the Windows OS, it has significant drawbacks that VMware does not. You can better manage and balance storage needs with VMware than … Incentivized Helpful? Noel Adams System Support Specialist II in Information Technology at GCS (Education Management, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Hyper-V Only thing I miss was the passthough of usb devices. We were already a windows shop so we went with that over vmware. Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Zakarieya Abderoef Solutions Architect in Information Technology at Baraka Technology Group (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Windows Server Windows Server is more cost-effective and skills are easier to find to support the products. The deployment and management of the product can be automated with Microsoft SCCM. In my opinion, Linux seems to be more secured but takes more time and effort to learn than Windows … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Windows Server Windows Server is the most Enterprise/Business server around, easy to deploy and configure and to co-exist with other servers. Most if not every other server technology is usually very good for a very specific purpose but fail in the coexistence and integration when compared … Incentivized Helpful? Olumayowa Mosuro Systems Admin in Information Technology at MultiChoice (Broadcast Media, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Windows Server Easy to use server operating system as compared to other operating systems (OS) which might require you to do a configuration via a terminal. Installation and managing of server - client applications are easy to use. Less load on server depending on the number of users … Incentivized Helpful? Omar Campos Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Whitworth University (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Windows Server HP-UX is a great product, but it has a much higher learning curve than Windows server. Even if you're familiar with Linux/Unix, HP-UX will still be very challenging if you've never used it before. HP-UX commands can be different than even other Linux/Unix commands. Whereas … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Windows Server Windows vs. OS X. Windows scales so much better here. OS X in a server role is ok for one or two servers but does not have the enterprise feature set or associated complementary software products that Microsoft Windows has. Windows vs. Linux. Both have their advantages. These … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Windows Server The only other server level OS I've ever used was OS/2, and there's really no point in trying to compare against it anymore. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Hyper-V

Windows Server

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Hyper-V and Windows Server
Feature	Hyper-V 8.6 71 Ratings	Windows Server - Ratings
Virtual machine automated provisioning	9.059 Ratings	00 Ratings
Management console	7.071 Ratings	00 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	9.063 Ratings	00 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	8.565 Ratings	00 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	9.465 Ratings	00 Ratings

User Ratings
	Hyper-V	Windows Server
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (72 ratings)	8.2 (63 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (6 ratings)	9.1 (6 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (8 ratings)	8.2 (7 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (1 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (1 ratings)	5.5 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.5 (16 ratings)	6.4 (19 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	5.0 (3 ratings)	9.1 (4 ratings)
Configurability	9.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	- (0 ratings)	4.5 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Professional Services	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.0 (1 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)