Hyper-V Room for Improvement

VM
Cloud solution architect at 0

There's room for improvement in Hyper-V. One area I've personally encountered issues with is live migration. Sometimes during live migrations, the process gets stuck in a certain state. This can happen with replication as well. It's not necessarily a major problem, but at times, the error messages aren't very informative. They don't clearly explain why the migration failed.

If Hyper-V could be more user-friendly with more detailed logging during live migrations, it would be a significant improvement for users.

For example, let's say a VM fails to start. The error message might mention a "parameter interrupt" failure, but it wouldn't tell you which specific parameter is causing the issue. These are the kinds of minor details that can be improved to make things easier for end users. 

With more specific error messages, users could readily identify a configuration issue in a parameter, fix it themselves, and get the VM running. But without clear information, they have to raise a support ticket and wait for support personnel to analyze logs and potentially use source code tracing to identify the problem. This can be a time-consuming process. 

By providing more user-friendly error messages, we can avoid these situations and empower users to resolve issues independently. That's one immediate improvement.

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AANKITGUPTAA - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Pi DATACENTERS

They need to make some improvements to compare to VMware on Nutanix. There should be a center manual console to manage all the Hyper-V servers and cross-host V-motion. There should be clustering, and the virtual data center should be created with that in mind. There should be similar offerings between different services available within the industry.

I'd like there to be a central management console and a central configuration tool to manage and configure multiple Hyper-V services. 

We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly.

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Shashika Rathnayaka - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at OAK integrated System Pvt Ltd

We haven't had any difficulties with the solution. We're happy with it. 

Sometimes there's a bit of slowness in the VMs. The performance could be a bit better.

We'd like to see a bit more done with the migration capabilities. 

The solution needs to offer better local or regional support. 

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JJ
Test Environment Manager at a wireless company with 201-500 employees

The WSUS could stand to improve a little bit. It is also foggy at times. Again, I use a wide variety of products and services, but going through each one would take much longer, but WSUS is an awesome Microsoft product that could use some improvement in terms of reporting tools and such. Even the additions and servers work is more difficult. Even the manual add is difficult, and reporting occasionally breaks into the endpoints, but that could be one to five servers when I'm checking a hundred to 200 servers.  I suppose it's insignificant, but when it causes problems with those minor details, it can be difficult. But, aside from that, it works well.

It does what it needs to do and is adequate for the time being. It completes tasks such as replication cycles and other similar tasks. That's probably the only way it can be. In my opinion, it would have been better to truncate the site-to-site replication. If it could have been a simpler process, or if there was another way they could have done it, it would be beneficial. For example, if I'm doing site-to-site replication, I would normally have to do that in terms of bandwidth; Cisco has some, and they have some different tools that would enable the packages to be smaller and faster, but maybe just Microsoft takes a while to do the site-to-site replication.

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MichaelHarvey - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Many vendors, such as Cisco and HPE, are discontinuing support for Hyper-V as they believe it does not have a significant market share. This poses a significant problem for our Hyper-V customers since several major vendors will no longer provide support for it.

Hyper-V doesn't need additional features. They just needed to be well-defined. So, people aren't using it as much as before, and so they need to market it better. Everybody knows VMware, but not a lot of people know Hyper-V.

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AW
System Administrator at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

In terms of performance, when compared to VMware, it is much slower. This applies not only to the system performance but also to the virtual machine performance. Particularly, the disk I/O is very poor, in my opinion. Additionally, it is lacking in many features that are offered by tools such as VMware.

I currently have all the features I need. Therefore, I do not think that there is anything I need to add to my wishlist. Moreover, the company I work for is not that big. I am the sole IT personnel in a company with only 30 employees.

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AB
Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The only negative thing I heard was that the baseline price is very, very attractive relative to VMware, however, the vCenter counterpart, the thing that brings it all together, is quite pricey.

We could probably live without it since we are a relatively small operation, however, vCenter is very convenient. vMotion and so forth are nice to be able to do. However, in order to be able to do the counterpart to that in the HyperVision world, suddenly the cost differential diminishes dramatically. We're not considering a change anytime soon, yet things have changed even from the last two years ago when we last looked at this.

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Benjamin Mpolokoso - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager ICT at NJIT

VLAN is not very easy to configure. The product must provide automation of virtualization across VLANs.

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MC
Engineer at SIP

I'd like the performance to be better. 

If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V.

The interface needs more options and more refinement. 

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FM
Consultant at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees

The weakness of Hyper-V is in its interaction with iSCSI protocols. I had a bad experience with iSCSI, but that is storage not from Microsoft and is a very particular storage option that I chose long ago.

I would like to see a more granular configuration of the iSCSI protocol without going to the registry to configure it. Instead, there should be a user interface to quickly configure the parameters of iSCSI communication.

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SK
System Administrator at Confidential

We would like to have a cloning function added to this product.

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Maged Elmasry - PeerSpot reviewer
Help Desk Specialist at SESCO Trans

The security part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required. When I contacted the product's office to raise my concerns about the tool's security, I was told that it would be taken care of in the solution's upcoming versions.

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Suleeporn Romlee - PeerSpot reviewer
Operation Database Administrator & Manager at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The area revolving around operations in the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required. The tool should have reduced operation time.

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Mohidul Islam - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Flora Limited

They could work on lowering the cost of the solution. 

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KS
Technical Head ESG at Technoline Systems & Services

If I want to create a cluster of around five to 10 physical servers Hyper-V does not get integrated with any kind of virtual sense, such as vSense.

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TJ
System admin at Riyad Bank

The area that requires attention is the noticeable slowdown in performance. A singular interface for administration control, allowing centralized management of all aspects, would be preferable. Enhanced visibility and reporting capabilities are desired for better insights and analysis.

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FA
COO at FA IT SERVICES PLC

We're missing quite a lot of features on Hyper-V and I'd like to see more flexibility in terms of moving server automation. Unfortunately, the reporting mechanism is not there. They really need to move in the direction of Hyper-V, a hyper-convergence infrastructure kind of solution.

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Ali Yazıcı - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Service Manager at Kuveyt Turk Participation Bank

We would like it to migrate virtual machines without interruptions.

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Pablo Ramírez - PeerSpot reviewer
Datacenter & Security Manager at Binaria IT Services

The solution should improve its native integration with other public cloud solutions.

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Le Ban - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Manager & Chief IT Engineer at JVPC

They should include a few more hardware components for integration with servers. It would work great for the Hyper-V environment. Additionally, they should consider cloud virtualization features. 

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SA
System Admin at Institute of Space Technology (IST)

Some of the interfaces need improvements, like the virtual switch or virtual VLAN interfaces.

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SK
Chief, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Digestive Disease Institute at a government with 201-500 employees

Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability.

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Timur Assembayev - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Specialist at Wattum

When it comes to Hyper-V, the worst thing is it's based on the Windows operating system. For the installation of Hyper-V, you're supposed to install the right operating system. For me, it's strange.

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MY
Works at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

Hyper-V has limitations. When one server or one virtual machine fails, or one is turned off, the virtualization stops, and we have to initiate again with human intervention. 

In the next release, I would like to see virtualization replication added.

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Soundar Rajan - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware Administrator at Ingram Micro Saudi Arabia

The product performs a bit slowly compared to VMware.

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Mohamed -Adel - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at IPIC

The pricing and technical support can be improved. 

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Rouben Amirthasawmy - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Sun Resorts

Hyper-V doesn't have a lot of features and is limited compared to other virtualization software.

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Nishant Ambast - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager at Arya Omnitalk Wireless Solutions Private Limited

The solution should be compatible with different systems. 

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Ibrahim Mashal - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Al Abnaa

Hyper-V needs to improve its support. 

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