User Reviews of Hyper-V & RHEV

Updated February 2026

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Hyper-V review

Tomas Basus
Tomas Basus
IT Professional at a government with 11-50 employees
Virtualization has reduced licensing costs and improved integration but still...
Integrations bring the biggest benefit to us. We use half of our virtual machines that are Microsoft, so it works better hosted in Hyper-V compared to VMware. Clustering and failover capabilities in the product help with our availability. It helped because we switched to Hyper-V because it was lower cost than paying for high availability in...
RHEV review

Mike Neuliep
Mike Neuliep
Linux Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Has supported virtualization projects in side jobs but has required workarounds...
In my opinion, the best features of RHEV are that it is a real hypervisor and it is free, so it performs better than VMware. I have used the live migration feature in the past with RHEV. There is a free clone of it that is based on the open source. Live migration is a nifty feature if your app is not highly available and you need to do...

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