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\"it_user8256<\/a>
it_user8256<\/a>Senior Manager of Infrastructure with 501-1,000 employees<\/span><\/div>
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But you have all of these features in Hyper-V (like HA, Clustering, Live Migration and others) for free! If you use ESXi you don\'t have! You have to go to the pay version to get those features!<\/p><\/div>

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it_user4524<\/a>Founder & Principal Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees<\/span><\/div>
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Hyper-V is completely free. But, so is VMware ESXi (hypervisor). If you want a stand-alone server, both are good options. The price comes into play when you add centralized management, failover capabilities, performance statistics collection, etc. At that point both cost a fair amount, but if you are in an enterprise environment, you need all of these features to save you a tremendous amount of management time.<\/p><\/div>