Hyper-V Pricing
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Kevin Ewing
IT Director at HOMELAND TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLC
There's no annual cost for the Hyper-V server version 2019. If you add up the other solutions we have on there, it totals up to around $3,000 a year.
View full review »The product comes with Windows Server. It is updated every time there's a new version of Windows Server. There is no separate license for the solution. It is part of Windows Server. There's no additional cost other than having a backup solution to back up the virtual machines. It might just be the cost of any backup software license.
View full review »The licensing costs depend on the environment you have. If you have an environment of less than 10 or 30 VMs, It's nice to have a Hyper-V, but if you have more than 100 or 200, I would recommend using VCenter, VMware virtualization, especially for an on-premise solution.
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There is nothing extra required for Hyper-V apart from the licenses that one purchases to use Microsoft Windows.
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Vineeth Marar
Cloud solution architect at 0
Licensing cost depends on the edition you choose. There are two main options: Standard and Datacenter.
With a Datacenter license, you can only create two virtual machines that are covered by the license itself. You can create more VMs, but they won't be licensed and could result in charges during an audit.
Feature-wise, both Standard and Datacenter editions offer the same functionalities. The key difference lies in licensing. Standard includes licenses for only two VMs, while Datacenter allows you to run any number of VMs with a single Datacenter license. Datacenter also offers functionalities like Storage Replica and live migration that aren't available in Standard.
The user doesn't have any control over the licensing process itself. You can create VMs regardless of licensing, but in Standard edition, they'll be considered unlicensed and subject to charges during an audit.
Datacenter offers all the features of the Standard edition, plus the ability to run any number of licensed VMs as part of the Datacenter licensing cost. That's why Datacenter is more expensive.
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Eloho-Unufe
IT infrastructure lead at 0
The product is a bit expensive, but it is worth the money.
The product's price depends on the scale at which it is used in the company.
You do need to pay for a license in order to use the solution. It is a bit expensive and could be cheaper.
View full review »The cost of the product actually comes under the Windows server purchase. A Windows Server standard license comes with Hyper-V. A minimum of eight core license units need to be purchased. The costs depend completely on your CPU and core central server.
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reviewer1827354
Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The pricing is a function of how many cores you have or how many processors you have. Since we're a Microsoft partner and use tools to create and maintain the software that we sell subscriptions to, we get very attractive pricing. If whatever their counterpart to the vCenter licensing weren't an issue, it would probably be 20% of what we pay for VMware.
When you add the vCenter, counterpart back in, however, it comes to be probably 80%-85% of what you actually need. The last 10% or 15% is where it gets pricey. That's a lot to cover for us to do unless there's some other serious functional advantage - and our guys haven't seen that yet.
View full review »It's not expensive.
View full review »It is one of the cheapest products in the market. So, even though Nutanix gives away AHV, one still has to pay for Nutanix home.
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RameshDasari
IT Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft Hyper-V is not expensive and is easy to set up.
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TJ1
System admin at Riyad Bank
The license is free.
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Fred M.
Consultant at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees
Hyper-V's price is a good point because it's within the overall license cost. I don't have to pay extra for Hyper-V, And that's a good point. Hyper-V's price is essentially zero because it's a feature of the operating system that I can enable and disable at will.
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Morne' O'Kennedy
Lead specialist at OKCIUS (Pty) Ltd
Do not immediately think of massive SANs and expensive servers. Instead, start small then evaluate and test properly to understand how workloads are treated. Microsoft, with Server 2019, gives you a massive number of tools to do this cost-effectively.
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Reviewer1961
System Administrator at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft should have not required a data center license for the new feature of Storage Spaces Direct. There is a new feature that comes with Hyper-V called "Storage Spaces Direct" What that storage does, it allows you to use the storage in host A and use the storage in host B, and make them work together like they're one shared storage array. The computers don't know that they're putting data on server A or B. To them, it looks like one big pool of disks. Before, we used to have to buy a separate storage array, external to the servers, and tie the servers to that array. But this new feature that comes with Hyper-V let's us use the storage inside the servers, it saves money. But Microsoft tacked on a higher price for their software to use that feature, and that was just terrible. We would be using that feature more if it did not demand a data center license.
View full review »The product's price is low. We have to pay a one-time cost.
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Arno Wolthers
System Administrator at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Cost-wise, what one gets is directly proportional to the price paid. If the need for capacity doubles, then the price also doubles. We get all the licenses for the solution through a third party.
View full review »It is an inbuilt tool included in Windows Server. There is no cost associated with it if customers are already using Microsoft products.
View full review »Hyper-V is included in the Microsoft Azure license for no extra cost. However, they charge for technical support calls on an hourly basis.
View full review »I'm not sure of the exact pricing of the solution. The cost may be a bit higher than VMware, however.
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MichelCalle
Engineer at SIP
You do need to pay for support, which is expensive. The solution by itself is free.
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Liam Lynch
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Because we're an NGO or a charity, we get discount rates from Microsoft. The costs are not astronomical for us. To give you an example, Office 2019 would only cost 30 or 45 for us. We tend to use the on-premises version rather than the cloud version. The reason is that the subscription service works out more expensive after a few years than the on-premise version. We're not worried about having the bleeding edge stuff. We just want it to be functional.
View full review »The tool's pricing is cheap.
View full review »Hyper-V is expensive.
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Alan Kuo
Project Engineer at ASE Group Global
The solution is not as expensive as other options, for example, specifically VMware.
View full review »Hyper-V is free-of-charge.
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reviewer1647333
Works at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Thanks to our enterprise agreement with Microsoft, Hyper-V is free for us.
View full review »The solution is not expensive, and the subscription is annual.
View full review »There is a license required for this solution. I would recommend purchasing the support.
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David Oparinde
Managing Director with 51-200 employees
There is a license to use this solution and it is an annual purchase.
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reviewer1714488
Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
I think Hyper-V is much cheaper for a small or medium-sized business. If the customer is running VMware and using Windows Server, we still have to purchase a Windows Server license plus the VMware license. Hyper-V will be cheaper if it's just a small deployment for one or two virtual machines.
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Jarek Słupiński
Freelancer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Licensing is fairly easy because Hyper-V itself is free.
View full review »I wasn’t involved in the pricing or licensing, so I can’t really comment on it.
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Aws Al-Dabbagh
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
The costs in regards to upgrading the solution are quite high and it deters customers from changing versions.
The old solution in 2012 was charging at a cost per server and the pricing was good at the time. In 2016, Microsoft upgraded the licensing, or changed the licensing scheme to per CPU within the server. Basically, if we wanted to upgrade to 2016, we would have had to pay double again for the same software. Therefore, we decided to go with another solution.
The solution offers perpetual licensing.
View full review »It's free, minus the license for the host OS.
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Syed Nouman Ali Rizvi
System Admin at Institute of Space Technology (IST)
We pay an annual license for Hyper-V, and it's on the expensive side.
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reviewer294312
IT Infrastructure at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We purchase the license from Microsoft.
We renew the software assurance every three years.
View full review »There is a license required to use Hyper-V and there are bundle packages you can purchase making it cheaper than other solutions, such as VMware. Additionally, if there is a lot of guest OS that requires Windows, then Microsoft becomes cheaper.
The cost of the usage is dependant on the customer's requirements and if the virtual network is flexible or not. Since VMware is more flexible it can become superior but not cheaper.
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reviewer1625112
Manager IT at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The solution is quite expensive when you compare it to other products. Microsoft solutions aren't cheap.
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Reviewer893
Sr. Programmer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
It is free for us so that was a prime factor for choosing this solution.
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Sandeep Shenoy
Works at hadafq8
We chose this solution because of the pricing and the simplicity of the product.
View full review »Hyper-V is free, however if you build clusters, you should get a manager to centralize the management. If you are big enough and you have some money, I strongly recommend System Center, which includes VMM and other great tools like Orchestrator. You can automate building your VMs and even your application tiers. Also with VMM, you can automate spinning up new Hyper-V hosts with PXE boot. I configured, I used it, and it works perfectly.
If you are small shop go with a third party Hyper-V manager like 5nine. It is cheap, they even have a free version, and also a converter from VMware is free. I am using it right now and it works great. It includes alerting.
If for some reason you cant get either, you can manage your clusters directly from fail over cluster manager. It is just more manual work than with the tools above.
View full review »Since we have an agreement with Microsoft, the solution is not very expensive.
View full review »Hyper-V is free when you buy Windows Server. You only have to pay for engaging in the management aspect in System Center.
View full review »The Hyper-V pricing and licensing are very good.
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YaoAyivor
CTO for Pydynamix
The pricing is not an issue for us because we have a licensing agreement with Microsoft. So we are given an 80% discount.
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Saad Khoudali
System Administrator at Confidential
We rent our licenses for this solution, which means that we also have access to premium-level support. The rental cost is payable annually and includes a number of products that work with this solution. It also allows us to run unlimited virtual machines without needing a license for each one.
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Reviewer4901
IT Executive at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
I use the free version of Hyper-V.
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Between the additional hardware/software and consultant costs we spent around $80K.
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reviewer1109874
Solutions Specialist at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Hyper-V is cost-effective and is a one-time purchase. Microsoft has multiple licensing options available, such as a subscription model and an outside purchase model that customers can choose as per their requirements.
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Ahmed Gamil
PreSales Manager at UC-Solutions
If you have the standard edition of Windows server then with each copy of the operating system, you have two virtual machines for free.
If you have a Windows Datacenter license then you have unlimited virtual machines for free. This is much better compared to ESXi or VMware, where each virtual machine requires its own license. In the Windows Datacenter, you can have as many as you want.
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SivaKumar1
Chief, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Digestive Disease Institute at a government with 201-500 employees
Hyper-V is part of Windows Server, so there are no extra costs for the product.
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Shams K
Vmware Administrator at Intertech
I recommend Hyper-V to customers with budget constraints.
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MissileMax
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It's included in the windows, so not it's very expensive.
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ShaileshSurroop
Assistant Manager - IS Infrastructure
In terms of the licensing, if you are using Microsoft Windows 100%, it is okay, but, when you start mixing other environments it becomes quite tricky.
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O'Neil Robinson
Manager, Information Technology at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
I think I'm okay with the cost. There are no monthly or yearly costs or additional costs.
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Madhura Direckze
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
There is a perpetual license to use the solution and there are additional fees for support.
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A.J. DiLorenzo
Senior Systems Administrator at Privia Health
I wish the licensing was simpler and allowed for a greater number of VMs with the Microsoft standard licensing. Overall I think it's fair. The pricing is definitely fair.
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Reviewer5227
System Administrator at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I do not have experience with the licensing of the product.
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reviewer1164519
Director Of Services Nicaragua at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Licensing needs to be a lot easier to manage with Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware is easier.
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MS Alam
System Administrator at Abdullah Al-Othaim Markets
The pricing is not much. We have a very big environment, and pricing is no problem. We did not spend much time looking at other products, though.
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Reviewer2829
Interim Director of Technology at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I do not have any comments about pricing or licensing of the product.
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reviewer1505493
Systems Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
Our licensing fees are paid for as a package with the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement. We have to pay for our data center licenses.
This is a fairly expensive product because it balances the needs of security.
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ReviewerD658
Network Administrator II at a maritime company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I do not have experience with pricing or licensing of the product.
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Fitsum Abebe
COO at FA IT SERVICES PLC
We pay a one-off licensing fee. The cost is competitive.
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JoseSuarez1
Associate designer
With Hyper-V, you don't have any issues about making license payments as it's a Microsoft product.
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Hea43278Dpt21
Head of Department for IT Services at a government with 201-500 employees
We have an agreement with Microsoft so this came with the solution. The pricing is okay for us.
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reviewer1647993
Manager
I was not involved in the acquisition of the solution, so I do not have exact details about the pricing.
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Muhammad Tariq
Program Architect (Microsoft) with 5,001-10,000 employees
This product costs less than other competitor products on the market.
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Thendo Ndzimeni
Network Administrator at Automated Outsourcing services
The licensing is good for a data center environment.
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AriGreenbaum
IT at a non-profit
The licensing is pretty straightforward.
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reviewer1596237
IT & Security Team Leader at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I think Microsoft is a little better in pricing. But as I said, I'm not a pricing person, and I can't speak with great confidence on that. But in general, Microsoft is a little lower than BMI.
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Javier-Arrocha
Oficial de comunicaciones at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
The pricing and licensing is fine.
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Youssef EL HADJ
System and Network Administrator at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
The price is quite fair. It is not too expensive.
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Ahmad Hassan
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I think it is expensive. I think if they want it to be more competitive, they should lower the price.
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Ignacio Salom
Senior Principal Consultant at CCE
The pricing is competitive, and a bit less than other options on the market.
View full review »Once we bought the datacenter version of the server, we did away with worrying about the cost of licensing our VMs separately.
View full review »The pricing isn't too bad, because you can do the bare metal hyper-visor, and it is pretty fair. Other competitors are more expensive.
View full review »It's cheap, but not the best.
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reviewer849252
System Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The pricing and licensing is pretty good.
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Hyper-V
May 2024
Learn what your peers think about Hyper-V. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: May 2024.
771,170 professionals have used our research since 2012.