Hyper-V Reviews

I use Azure Monitor and other monitoring solutions to support clients in Accenture's managed services. We support multiple environments, primarily on cloud platforms like Azure and AWS, and also on-premises environments with operating systems like Windows, Linux, and Solaris, among others.

Microsoft Hyper-V is useful for maintaining workloads with smaller footprints, especially in remote or retail settings. Its cost-effectiveness is beneficial for clients.

I am using Hyper-V because it is easy, user-friendly, and offers high availability options. I use it to manage virtual machines and demonstrate Microsoft products to students. In my organization, Hyper-V is used on-premises rather than on the cloud.

Hyper-V is used on-premises, not in the cloud, because the cloud already has virtualization support. This eliminates the need to use Hyper-V on the cloud.

I use Hyper-V primarily to create virtual machines (VMs).

I find the quick provision feature in Hyper-V to be extremely helpful. Additionally, the ease of setup since we have been using it for a long time also adds value. Hyper-V supports the creation of VMs efficiently.

For my organization, we are choosing Hyper-V because our customers are using this solution.

We use Hyper-V virtualization for our customers who already go with the Microsoft product, and some systems are in Azure Cloud while others use this on-prem Hyper-V solution.

Hyper-V is a good product with some limitations, and we can suggest it to customers who mostly prefer Windows.

For backup and disaster recovery with Hyper-V, we do the same as others by using snapshots, and we can integrate it with any backup system. I see no issue for backup and restoration.

There are no issues with integrations; we can integrate any backup software with Hyper-V without any limitation.

We have a virtualization environment where we use Hyper-V on the ESXA cluster. We install Hyper-V, then we install virtual machines, and configure the virtual machines there. This setup does not require any license from Microsoft.

I use Hyper-V to create virtual machines on hardware. Hyper-V is an alternative solution to VMware. It is beneficial for those who need to set up virtual machines without licensing requirements. 

It is completely free, which is a significant advantage. 

Additionally, it is easy to set up, scoring eight out of ten for setup ease. The product is stable, although it requires improvement in automation features for better functionality.

We use Hyper-V for our on-premise servers, and we have a couple of Hyper-V desktops that remote salespeople use to log in remotely. They have an on-premises station they can remote into and utilize everything at our other office. We replicate everything there, so if anything happens to our facility here, we can get spun up at our other location.

There are 40 people in our organization. We have sales engineers, technicians, and our standard office staff. Three servers are running off of Hyper-V, including our SQL server for our main CRM and QuickBooks databases, our central files storage server, and another files server that holds our backup domain controller. Then we have another domain controller that handles some other internal things. That is pretty much our organization in a nutshell.

We plan to expand usage of Hyper-V. For example, we have a terminal server that isn't on Hyper-V at the moment. It is session based, and we're working on transitioning over. Also, we got a brand new server two weeks ago, so we're transitioning everybody off of the terminal server to local Windows 10 and Hyper-V VMs. 

Everyone will have their own desktop environment versus having a session-based terminal. That way, if there's an emergency patch update or something like that for one person on the terminal server, we don't have to take the whole terminal server down. We can take down that person's desktop. We'll deploy as many as 12 additional Hyper-V desktops running in that. 

That will be our future deployment based on what we've seen in the Hyper-V desktop environment and its performance. It runs great. All users who have already transitioned to that environment are enjoying it compared to the old terminal server that we had.

We were running three servers, but Hyper-V enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server running NVMe drives in it. Using Hyper-V's virtualization, we can operate all our servers on one physical server. We're seeing better performance off of that thanks mainly to the NVMe drives. 

We've probably seen a 50 percent speed increase on our SQL server. Hyper-V has also significantly reduced our downtimes with faster boot-up and reboot. If we have to reboot a server, there is maybe two or three minutes of downtime. When we were on a bare-metal server, it could be five to ten minutes due to the total boot time.

The first benefit for the customer and myself is the ease of management. It's not complicated, and it operates smoothly when the architecture is properly set up for the customer. It functions highly efficiently and streamlined, making it optimal for daily operations.

Microsoft's market is improving because it's becoming more open to open-source technologies. It's becoming more open and stable, and a significant advantage is the strong performance of Linux and Linux Cloud on its platforms. The integration with Azure is excellent, providing seamless performance. If customers want to create a hybrid cloud, it's easy to configure and integrate with Azure. Active Directory integration is straightforward to set up.

The solution is used to make effective use of resources. We had a data center locally and wanted to manage multiple instances, applications, and services. So, we had to use a virtual environment to efficiently use them at a reduced cost.

The scope of the solution is valuable. Hyper-V is a Microsoft product. So, it also has a cloud version. Migration is easy. We can deploy multiple VMs. We do not need a separate solution for it.