Hyper-V Stability
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Kevin Ewing
IT Director at HOMELAND TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLC
Hyper-V has been highly stable. I'm impressed with the performance. Granted, this was my first Hyper-V install, so I was a bit worried about it, but with the hardware platform that we have it on, everything's been excellent stability-wise, and I haven't had any issues with that server. It's been up and working for the past six months. I only had to reboot once to do an update. Everything has been working great.
View full review »The tool is very stable. I rate the stability a ten out of ten.
View full review »The solution is highly stable.
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Hyper-V
March 2024
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Based on my experience with the product, I can say that my company seems to face some delay in the solution when it comes to the area of replication. The server runs normally in our company, but we are unable to figure out why there is a lag or delay in the replication area, because of which we need to cut down on the replication process and initiate it again.
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Vineeth Marar
Cloud solution architect at 0
Stability-wise, Hyper-V is definitely more stable than many other products. Compared to any other hypervisor on the market, Hyper-V is a very solid product.
In my experience, with good hardware resources and a compatible operating system, I can confidently guarantee a 99.95% SLA (Service Level Agreement) uptime for Hyper-V environments without even needing to check the specific environment beforehand.
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Eloho-Unufe
IT infrastructure lead at 0
The product is stable. Microsoft solutions have been quite stable once you manage your parts properly.
View full review »Only ten percent of the time, there are issues related to breakdowns or bugs in the product.
View full review »It is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze.
View full review »It works well. It is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
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reviewer1827354
Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I don't have many insights on stability. I have read a few things, however, it's not really my space.
View full review »It's very stable.
View full review »It is a stable product.
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RameshDasari
IT Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It's about 90% stable.
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TJ1
System admin at Riyad Bank
It offers good stability capabilities.
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Fred M.
Consultant at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees
The product is stable.
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Morne' O'Kennedy
Lead specialist at OKCIUS (Pty) Ltd
It is very stable. There are some minor problems, as there is with all software applications, but they are not problems that affect the platform in such a way that your customers are affected. If managed properly according to standards and Microsoft's recommendations, it works. It stays online and is very reliable.
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Joseph Kobe
CEO at ICES International
It's very stable. I have never had a problem with Hyper-V's stability.
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Reviewer1961
Works at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees
I find that this solution is very stable.
View full review »The product worked well for hosting a few Microsoft solutions.
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Arno Wolthers
System Administrator at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Hyper-V is a stable product.
View full review »Hyper-V is quite stable. I do not have any issues.
View full review »At the end of the day, Hyper-V is a Microsoft product. Thus, it provides better stability and is convenient to use.
View full review »We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage.
View full review »We'd like to see the performance improve a bit.
In our experience, for the most part, the solution is reliable. We haven't experienced any bugs or glitches.
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Shahzad-Ahmed
Engineer, System Admin at ebm
I would say that Hyper-V is pretty stable. But when it updates, we must restart all Windows systems. So if Microsoft can fix this thing so that the packages install restarting, then everything would be heaven for us. This means some downtime on our business side.
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MichelCalle
Engineer at SIP
The solution is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. However, the performance could be better.
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Liam Lynch
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is very stable and very reliable. I never had any failures of any description with it, which is amazing. We might have had hardware failures on the host, but everything is redundant, so there is plenty of resilience there.
View full review »The stability of the solution is satisfactory.
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Alan Kuo
Project Engineer at ASE Group Global
The solution is very stable. It doesn't crash. There aren't bugs and glitches that affect its functionality. It's a reliable product.
View full review »Hyper-V is not stable - we've had many errors and have had to do a lot of patch fixes for it.
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reviewer1647333
Works at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
While every product comes with issues, the solution works for us.
I rate the tool's stability a nine out of ten.
View full review »The solution is very stable.
View full review »The solution needs to improve the stability.
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David Oparinde
Managing Director with 51-200 employees
Hyper-V is a stable solution, but not as stable as VMware.
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reviewer1714488
Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
VMware is more stable than Hyper-V.
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Jarek Słupiński
Freelancer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I have never had any stability problems caused by Hyper-V for over five years.
View full review »We do experience some instability with the platform. It usually happens if there is a lot of I/O happening on the volumes that hold the VMs. We also have some issues working with clustered servers not load balancing correctly.
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reviewer1563234
IT Operations Manager at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
The solution is very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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Aws Al-Dabbagh
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
The solution is basically stable. There are not many faults happening in the four or so years that we had it running. Whatever happened was basically either due to the active directory or due to environments like the server itself that had power loss one time. It shut down and we needed to restart it. However, basically, that's an environment issue, not an issue inherent to Hyper-V itself. Otherwise, Hyper-V runs smoothly.
There is a small overhead of resources reserved for the server itself. Other virtualization solutions have less overhead than that. However, due to the fact that Hyper-V is running on Windows Server, there is a margin of overhead reserved for the server itself.
For the most part, however, it's reliable.
View full review »No issues encountered.
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Ahmed Gamil
PreSales Manager at UC-Solutions
The product is very stable, in particular with the most recent version of Windows Server. This is true even in a cluster environment, and I have never found an issue with stability.
Obviously, when you are using Windows Server update, it will restart the server occasionally and you will have downtime, but it will be minimal. If you don't want to have any downtime then you will need multiple hosts in a cluster environment. You can move your virtual machines from one host to another, which means that you can restart the server and not affect the service. This can be important because sometimes, the restart process takes too much time to complete.
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Kirandas S
Technical Head ESG at Technoline Systems & Services
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Syed Nouman Ali Rizvi
System Admin at Institute of Space Technology (IST)
Hyper-V is stable.
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reviewer294312
IT Infrastructure at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Hyper-V is a stable product.
In our organization, this solution is used by more than 1,200 people, and that number will increase to more than 1,500 users next month.
View full review »The solution is stable.
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reviewer1625112
Manager IT at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The performance isn't that great. If can be slow.
The stability is okay. I'd describe it as between 50 to 60% stable.
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Reviewer893
Sr. Programmer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Once it is setup, there is no problem.
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Sandeep Shenoy
Works at hadafq8
With each update, the security of this solution just gets better and better. It is very stable.
View full review »We did have problems, and you need to make sure that the LUNs have enough space. If you run out of space, you will need to spend a few hours to bring the VMs up.
View full review »Hyper-V is a stable solution.
View full review »It is a pretty stable solution.
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Saad Khoudali
System Administrator at Confidential
We have found this solution to be quite stable in our experience.
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Reviewer4901
IT Executive at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
I have not had problems with the stability of the solution.
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Outside of needing to keep the VM hosts patched (we did have an issue with a driver related to storage), no.
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reviewer1109874
Solutions Specialist at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is stable in my experience.
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SivaKumar1
Chief, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Digestive Disease Institute at a government with 201-500 employees
This solution is stable.
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Shams K
Vmware Administrator at Intertech
It is stable, especially if you do Hyper-V clustering. Some customers don't invest much into IT infrastructure, so I design Hyper-V-cluster-based solutions. The only potential problems are attacks on Windows servers, vulnerability issues, or receiving stolen packages could require you to restart it. But it does its job.
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reviewer1406361
IT Infrastructure Specialist at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It could be more stable. We faced a lot of issues on the backup site.
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Michael Ogunlade
Head of enterprise systems at Fidelity Bank Plc
Hyper-V is both stable and scalable; however, I also use VMware which I find to be more scalable and stable overall.
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reviewer930288
Works at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
It works very well. Its performance, stability, and redundancy are all very dependable.
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MissileMax
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It's very stable and very scalable. We're a very small operation, so we really just require one person for maintenance and deployment.
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ShaileshSurroop
Assistant Manager - IS Infrastructure
It is a very stable product.
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O'Neil Robinson
Manager, Information Technology at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Hyper-V has been pretty good. I have no complaints about the stability.
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Madhura Direckze
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The solution could be more stable as it is vulnerable to viruses, ransomware, and malware.
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A.J. DiLorenzo
Senior Systems Administrator at Privia Health
It is very stable. We have not had issues with it crashing itself.
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Reviewer5227
System Administrator at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It is a stable product.
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reviewer1164519
Director Of Services Nicaragua at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The performance of Hyper-V is good.
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reviewer1260267
Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is not stable. There are problems with backup as well.
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Reviewer2829
Interim Director of Technology at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have 400 users of this solution, and use three staff members for deployment and maintenance.
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reviewer1505493
Systems Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
Stability-wise, it is okay but not great. I'd say that it works but it's not perfect.
View full review »Initially we were using only one NIC for all VMs, physical servers, and for remote purposes as well. After assigning one NIC to each machine, the performance improved and is now excellent and reliable.
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Fitsum Abebe
COO at FA IT SERVICES PLC
There are sometimes issues with the network but the solution is stable.
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Hea43278Dpt21
Head of Department for IT Services at a government with 201-500 employees
The stability is acceptable for us. We do not have problems with it.
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Muhammad Tariq
Program Architect (Microsoft) with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is a stable product.
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Thendo Ndzimeni
Network Administrator at Automated Outsourcing services
The stability is generally good, although it depends on the size of your workload.
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AriGreenbaum
IT at a non-profit
It is pretty stable.
View full review »Not as of yet. But what's being done is completely unsupported by Dropbox. The way that they view it is just "a file is a file." That's it. So, you synchronize files that are the actual backups - and it's just a file. But using them for a backup solution, they don't support anything other than it being a client application for a user; not as a service or anything else.
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reviewer1019193
Founder at a non-profit with 1-10 employees
All the newer versions of Hyper-V are stable.
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reviewer1596237
IT & Security Team Leader at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Based on my experience, it is stable.
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reviewer1455690
Founder at a retailer with 1-10 employees
It's too early to tell at the moment. We are still new to using Hyper-V.
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Javier-Arrocha
Oficial de comunicaciones at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
It is a stable product.
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Youssef EL HADJ
System and Network Administrator at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
The product is stable. We have had no problems.
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Ahmad Hassan
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The stability of the product is fine. There is no problem. The only issues we have is with stability of the operating system.
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Ignacio Salom
Senior Principal Consultant at CCE
I recommend this product due to its high stability.
View full review »It is a very stable product.
View full review »Yes.
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reviewer935562
Senior Buyer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Hyper-V is not as stable as VMware and should be improved.
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reviewer849252
System Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The stability of the solution is very good.
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Hyper-V
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Hyper-V. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.