Hyper-V Benefits

KE
IT Director at HOMELAND TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLC

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.

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VM
Cloud solution architect at 0

Hyper-V functions as a feature within Windows Server editions, like Windows Server 2012 Standard, where it's included by default. With the purchase of the operating system, you gain access to multiple services such as software-defined storage, Hyper-V for virtualization, cluster computing, containerization with Docker and Kubernetes, and data deduplication, among others. 

Hyper-V allows for secure, isolated virtual environments for running applications, offering scalability, portability, and the ability to configure network settings, making it a significant asset for virtualization.

So, virtualization with Hyper-V is crucial. Consider Azure Stack HCI, which relies exclusively on Hyper-V for operation, hosting all workloads on virtual machines. Without Hyper-V, Azure Stack HCI wouldn't function. Hyper-V's importance extends to Azure cloud as well; it's fundamental from Microsoft's perspective. 

When we look beyond Microsoft to other cloud services like those offered by AWS or VMware, it's clear they depend on their own hypervisors to deliver similar services. Therefore, hypervisors, including Hyper-V, play a crucial role in today's cloud infrastructure.

However, I also faced a challenge with Hyper-V. One challenge is related to VM configuration files. In earlier Hyper-V versions, these files were in XML format, which allowed easy editing if there were any parameter mismatches or errors. However, the newer format, BCM, doesn't have any external tools available for editing the configuration file. 

So, if a customer encounters an issue with the configuration file, they might need to create a support ticket with Microsoft. Microsoft can then use an internal tool to analyze the BCM file and identify the problem. This can be a bit inconvenient for users, but overall, Hyper-V remains user-friendly and functional in most operational areas. I wouldn't say there are many challenges otherwise.

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AANKITGUPTAA - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Pi DATACENTERS

Most of the workload we usually have is in the Windows Server. We also leverage the Windows Server virtualization feature, allowing us to use the hardware efficiently and get multiple Windows installs based on the license. We use both Windows Server Standard and Data Center Editions. In the Data Center Edition, we can run unlimited virtual machines based on our hardware capabilities.

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

In terms of how the solution has helped the organization, I would say that cost-wise, it is a cheaper solution than VMware.

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RD
IT Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It has provided a good cost-saving from the management perspective. It's easy to use, and understand. It's definitively great working on Microsoft Hyper-V. It was a great opportunity to really contribute while cutting down our company costs.

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MO
Lead specialist at OKCIUS (Pty) Ltd

Hyper-V improved the infrastructure drastically, not only from a performance perspective but from a control/administration view as well. This directly affects the products and services offered on the platform. Our customers can increase or decrease resources on their workloads at any given time, which means we give them more control. That positively affects costs, reducing them for the customers. 

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WG
Works at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees

We can perform maintenance on equipment during the day because we can live migrate all of the machines from server A to server B, and then work on server A. This saves us a lot of time. It used to require working after hours for us to do this.

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LL
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It has cut down the management role on the actual service itself because we only have four Hyper-V hosts. Recently we had two, but we've put in two all-flash Hyper-V hosts. We have all-flash storage. It is good storage with loads of RAM. Most of them have got three-quarters of a terabyte of RAM, and they all are dual 32-core processors. There is no lack of power or anything in them. Because our servers are virtualized, it means that we do have four rack servers.

It really reduces the load. By using replication, we can separate out the servers and put them at different locations. We have them attached to the 10 gig fiber. With the replication facility, even if we do lose a server, we can be up and running within seconds or minutes at worst.

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

The solution is very user-friendly. Since we have an agreement with Microsoft, it is really easy to use and doesn't cost us much.

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

We used this product for our virtualization environment.

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it_user326982 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

This solution allows us to use minimal resources to support a large number of clients.

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it_user327432 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Specialist at PCMS Datafit

I use this in my home lab, and I am able to save space by running multiple Operating Systems and Services on only one physical device.

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Timur Assembayev - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Specialist at Wattum

It has not helped my organization. I just use it for testing.

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Muzamil Yakub - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at Infoview Limited

Hyper-V has improved our organization by enabling consolidation, high availability, disaster recovery, backups, and more. It makes it all simple.

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Benjamin Bodenehim - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

It allowed us to add on servers and fix things in an expedient manner.

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YA
CTO for Pydynamix

There is an ease of use, and it is able to deploy it because there are people throughout my country of South Africa that all understand Microsoft. They can easily fire up a virtual environment because they are familiar with Microsoft. 

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MD
IT Executive at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

It makes it easier to deploy services. All services tend to migrate onto the server house without having problems now. It is hardware independent.

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it_user79785 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of IT with 51-200 employees
The prime example is the simplicity and cost savings of our new DR/BCP solution. By consolidating our two disparate corporate AD2008/VMWare domains into a single Hyper-V/AD 2012 domain we have:
  1. Drastically reduced the complexity of the environment. NO more kludges or 3rd-party software to get systems like Exchange, Lync or AD Users conversing seamlessly.
  2. About $150K a year in colocation costs. With our private cloud we have a built-in DR/BCP solution on existing infrastructure, no need to farm out to a colo provider.
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DW
Works at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
  • It was our first step into virtualization around five years ago. 
  • It allows for quick deployment of servers and workloads.
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it_user345411 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The main improvement to our organization is its scalability and the ability to support our system by running our applications simultaneously. It ultimately helps us with customer satisfactions and productivity, Failover clustering is another amazing benefit to my organization as we have dramatically reduced the downtime.

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it_user474570 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Setup on a DAS can split functions to as many servers as needed improved backups and uptime.

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WW
Manager IT at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

We have a higher capacity server (specification wise) so there is no need to buy another additional hardware.       

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ST
Systems Architect at UST Global

Hyper-V has become a real matured virtualization platform with Windows Server 2012 R2. The organization that I work for was having a virtualization environment on Windows Server 2008 R2. Since it was not optimally used due to the limitations with Hyper-V with Windows Server 2008 R2, we evaluated the possibility to get an environment on Windows Server 2012 R2. We had more than 30 racks with the majority of them running on physical machines. By the end of 2014, the number of server racks came down to 10 and we could confidently run majority of the workloads on Hyper-V. The organization has realized the benefits on smaller data center space, power, cooling, etc. apart from the benefit that the virtualization layer brings in. 

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it_user747783 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Systems Analyst with 1-10 employees

Just to be able to efficiently utilize our power hardware. Gone are the days of one pizza box for a two-core CPU. You've got dozens of cores in one box, and you can't use them all if you just run one thing on one server, so you've got to virtualize it.

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YE
System and Network Administrator at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Using cluster with Hyper-V had a major impact on our protection environment. So all applications were virtualized using Hyper-V.

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it_user216687 - PeerSpot reviewer
Microsoft System Engineer at Summit Technology Solution

Enhanced Session Mode is a feature thats allow you to copy and past inside the virtual machine.

Live Migration in a virtual machine where you can move across your Hyper-V physical servers with or without user interaction, and in a virtual machine you can move from server to server without downtime.

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it_user221874 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager IT at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

After deploying this, we have saved hardware and electricity costs.

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it_user810477 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

It comes with all the features and goodies inside the box, so you do not have to purchase anything else. 

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it_user947223 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technician at Computer Geeks

We use it for testing new software. We especially use it for software updates because half of the time we're running an accounting program. It updates, and then breaks something else. This way we can run a couple of different VM's with a setup similar to what we use on all of the desktops. So, that way, you can test it without actually causing downtime.

Some of the things we run have to have a very specific Linux bistro, and you can't get it
all in Hyper-V.

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it_user683457 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Architect at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We built a private cloud with it.

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it_user872943 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Architecture and Design at Alterna Bank

Hyper-V provided freedom to spin up development and test environments. As projects were created, an environment could be created and applied.

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DB
System Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It saves us money because we did not have much in terms of this type of service before using this solution. 

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Hyper-V
March 2024
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