Hyper-V Scalability

KE
IT Director at HOMELAND TECHNOLOGY GROUP, LLC

Hyper-V is less scalable than VMware. It's excellent for smaller environments like ours, but VMware is still the go-to solution if you want to scale up.

Hyper-V's management platform falls short in terms of scalability, especially when handling multiple Hyper-V servers. VMware has a central console to pull in all your VM servers, so you can easily manage them all through one console. You can manage servers in Hyper-V's admin centers, but it's not as scalable. It's doable with a couple of Hyper-V servers, but it becomes harder to manage when you get over two or three Hyper-V servers.

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Benjamin Mpolokoso - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager ICT at NJIT

The solution is scalable. I rate the scalability a ten out of ten. In my organization, 3000 people use the solution. Everyone has to access at least one of the services. The product is extensively used in our organization. If the organization grows, we might increase the number of users.

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Tommy Myo Min Aung - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at Vantage Drilling

We have ten hosts that use the solution.

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

Around three people in my company use the product.

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VM
Cloud solution architect at 0

The number of users working on Hyper-V depends on how you configure it. In a Hyper-V cluster, you can potentially run up to 1000 VMs on a single server. This translates to supporting more than 1000 users concurrently, accessing and using multiple VMs. 

There's no specific user access limit; it depends on your licensing. You can have many customers accessing your VMs based on your licensing agreements.

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EU
IT infrastructure lead at 0

The solution is scalable. It may not directly translate into immediate returns for the organization but enhances the end-user experience. For instance, when users need to run applications from various vendors like Cisco, the scalability of Hyper-V ensures smooth operations and efficient resource allocation.

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Maged Elmasry - PeerSpot reviewer
Help Desk Specialist at SESCO Trans

The product is super effective when it comes to the scalability part. The product also offers super-effective performance.

Around 3,000 people in my company use the product.

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Mohidul Islam - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Flora Limited

The product scales well. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so. 

There are maybe 400 or more users on the solution, and there are between 300 and 500 users in our environment.

It can actually connect to PC users, and 200 PCs are connected now.

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AANKITGUPTAA - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Pi DATACENTERS

It is scalable only in terms of licensing.

If you have the Data Center Edition license, you can scale up.

We use this product for 50 or more servers.

We do not have plans to increase usage at this time. 

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

Across all of our clients, we probably have a few hundred in use, however, the number of instances of our application that are operating on those virtual servers, I don't know. 

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

Even though Hyper-V is not as scalable as VMware, it can be considered scalable in general.

We don't have any plans in our organization to increase the usage of the solution. On the contrary, I see a decrease in its usage. Nowadays, we work with customers who are going to migrate to VMware from Hyper-V, even though we don't want them to do that. But there is nothing else we can do to stop them from our end. This downfall of Hyper-V is related directly to the fact that other vendors are not supporting Hyper-V anymore.

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

We would give it a scalability rating of 4 out of 5, compared to VMware ESX which in terms of scalability is excellent.

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TJ
System admin at Riyad Bank

It provides high scalability.

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FM
Consultant at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees

The product is scalable with respect to the client. But maybe, in absolute terms, it might not be scalable at all.

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MO
Lead specialist at OKCIUS (Pty) Ltd

Hyper-V is easily scalable. Adding additional hosts, storage or event sharing workloads between clusters (Not sharing the same cluster nodes) is made possible with the recent versions of Windows Server.

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JK
CEO at ICES International

The solution is scalable because you can migrate the virtual machine for Hyper-V to the cloud easily. Each time they release a new OS, they are adding new features so far it's scalable.

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

It is very scalable. We used four staff members for deployment, and that was sufficient for our needs.

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

It is a scalable platform. We have 100 users for it.

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

Scaling the solution is not a problem, as increasing the capacity is as simple as adding to the base cost, which results in a doubling of capacity. Personally, I use Hyper-V software, while the rest of the company uses virtual machines.

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Andrea Andrea - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at BE.iT SA

The biggest cluster we have in the field is a node cluster.

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NaveenA - PeerSpot reviewer
Materials Engineer at HCL Technologies

It's straightforward to scale Hyper-V, but the automation isn't great. Hyper-V doesn't understand 80%/20%, so you need another technical resource to work on the coding voice, and we had to deploy a script for that.

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

There are five people directly using the solution. I'm not personally using the solution on a daily basis. 

It is scalable and easy to expand. 

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SA
Engineer, System Admin at ebm

Yeah. It's easy to scale cluster features like Microsoft or Hyper-V. We can add as many servers—a maximum of 64—so it can handle a lot and it's easy for us to add to it. But there is one requirement, which is that the servers have to be identical in hardware specs. So that is one of the limitations.

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MC
Engineer at SIP

If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools and more people. You need to work more. That said, it's cheaper. Some enterprises, some companies, find it better since they may have no more money. Bigger enterprises have the money to spend and have the tools or buy the tools needed, or use they may use VMware implementations along with Hyper-V.

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

I haven't come across any scalability issues, but you need a fairly powerful host machine. 

Nearly all users are using Hyper-V in some way, but they're not aware that it is Hyper-V that they're using while logging in to the servers. The servers are all virtualized, except for the physical servers that are hosting Hyper-V. We have quite a lot of virtual servers. The gateway that they use is a virtualized gateway server. Email servers are all virtualized. All sorts of services and filling servers are all virtualized. Virtualization reduces the physical footprint.

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Ibrahim Mashal - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Al Abnaa

My company has three users for Hyper-V. 

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Mohamed -Adel - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at IPIC

The solution is highly scalable. Fifty eight users are using the solution. 

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AK
Project Engineer at ASE Group Global

There's a team of us working with the solution. We have about five or six people who work with it regularly. We use it weekly.

The solution is very scalable. You just need to use the default function and it can build on the high reliability fro there. If a company needs to expand the solution, they can do so quite easily.

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Rouben Amirthasawmy - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at Sun Resorts

Hyper-V is scalable.

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IJ
Works at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is scalable.

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

Hyper-V's scalability is good. I rate it a nine out of ten. My company has two users. 

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

The solution is very scalable. However, we do not have a big cluster. At the moment, we do not have any plans to increase the usage of the solution.

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

Hyper-V can scale well.

We have approximately 1,000 users using this solution in my organization.

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

This solution is used by 10 administrators, and the product itself has 500,000, or 600,000 users.

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DO
Managing Director with 51-200 employees

The solution has good scalability.

The server is accessible to all the users that need to have access to the network resources.

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JK
Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Hyper-V's scalability or stability is okay. The problem is updating the host. Sometimes we have to schedule downtime for the entire machine to boot up, and the Windows update process takes a long time on the loading stream. It causes a lot of downtime for the customers. Hyper-V has more requirements to scale up compared to VMware. 

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JS
Freelancer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I am very satisfied with the scalability of Hyper-V. I'm using up to eight virtual machines on single x3650 M3

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

No issues with scalability.

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GS
IT Operations Manager at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

The product is scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.

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AA
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

The solution is quite scalable. If a company needs to expand, it can do so with relative ease.

Due to the fact that it's a virtualization solution, our IT team of three is managing it. However, as an ISP, we host some very important client services as well on the same solution. That means the number of users can go up to 100,000. From a management perspective, the management is just the three of us in the IT department.

We do not plan to increase usage at this time. Currently, with our version, we're planning to phase it out in our company within the next few years. That's mostly due to the fact that upgrade costs are too high and the solution is already an older generation, and we have decided to buy a fully new solution on new hardware. It will be Hyperflex.

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it_user327432 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Specialist at PCMS Datafit

I run an i7 quad core with a total of 8 processing threads and 24GB of RAM. I have eight VMs on a Hyper-V host, but not all run at the same time. The most I’ve had run is five, and everything ran pretty smoothly.

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AG
PreSales Manager at UC-Solutions

It is very easy to scale Hyper-V. However, it depends on the version that you have because if you have the Standard Edition then you only have three hosts. If you want more than three hosts then you will need a Datacenter version.

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KS
Technical Head ESG at Technoline Systems & Services

I am not able to scale the solution the way I want and that is why we are migrating to VMware.

I rate the scalability of Hyper-V a four out of ten.

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SA
System Admin at Institute of Space Technology (IST)

Hyper-V is scalable.

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ZA
IT Infrastructure at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a scalable solution.

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KS
Manager IT at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

The scalability is decent. I'd say that it can scale to 60 to 70%.

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SO
Sr. Programmer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

It is a hypervisor, so if you had more servers, you get more scale.

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SS
Works at hadafq8

We have 250 employees and current users at any given point of time using this solution. One infrastructure has an ARCo database. Another has a Si database. The applications have a site exchange between them.

We have two employees who maintain deployment and management of the solution. One handles the database, and the other handles the application. We plan to scale to more users in the future.

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it_user203934 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

If you know what you are doing, you can automate the deployment of a new Hyper-V host with a PXE boot and VMM.

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Muzamil Yakub - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at Infoview Limited

Hyper-V is a scalable solution. 

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

I have not scaled it because I am not running it in a cluster environment anymore. I do know that the clusters work and that Hyper-V can easily scale for an organization's greater needs.

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YA
CTO for Pydynamix

It is scalable. For me, it's all about getting the right architecture approval before even looking at Hyper-V layer and then virtualizing where we can, but if not, we go physical. At the same time, it'll all be on a Microsoft platform, hence why I have Hyper-V.

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SK
System Administrator at Confidential

This solution is scalable if the new server, or new node, is prepared identically to the existing cluster that it will be added to. The product also requires the same user accounts and service accounts that exist currently to be created, and for some shared storage to be in use.

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

I am using the free version of the solution. There are some limited features, and it is not too scalable. But, I am sure the full version is much better for scaling.

We have plans to migrate to the full version in the future, as we have a greater need for usage.

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it_user79785 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of IT with 51-200 employees
Zero – we have a pretty robust infrastructure in place for the number of staff. Clustered DL385’s & EMC VNXe at each datacenter will allow us to scale out and up easily (we are using around 12% of capacity on the VNXe and can drop additional servers into the cluster if there’s a spike in use or we make acquisitions). View full review »
SK
Chief, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Digestive Disease Institute at a government with 201-500 employees

We are running Hyper-V on-premise, so the scalability is limited.

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

Hyper-V is scalable.

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AV
IT Infrastructure Specialist at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Hyper-V is a scalable solution. We are a global center, and we use Hyper-V across 22 countries.

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SS
Assistant Manager - IS Infrastructure

We have servers in several African countries. All of the management of the infrastructure is done through the system's center. We have about 400 users who are currently using this solution. It is definitely scalable.

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OR
Manager, Information Technology at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

It scales well so far, but I think we're nearing the edge of that. We have somewhere in the region of about 200 users.

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MD
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We have approximately 100 customers using this solution.

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AO
Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is not scalable.

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MA
System Administrator at Abdullah Al-Othaim Markets

We have over 80 servers on our Hyper-V with one guy handling the deployment. We do have plans to increase our usage in the future. 

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TM
Systems Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

Hyper-V is limited when it comes to scalability. If you have a data center license then you can scale up or down, or use the main virtual machines on the server. However, if you have a normal, or standard license, you can only run two virtual machine instances.

We have approximately 1,000 users.

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Yogesh (Datamotive) - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at a tech company with 11-50 employees

We have a few support applications that run on top of this solution, so we just have a handful of people who use it. I would say that there are five or six users.

At this point, we do not have plans to increase usage.

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it_user345411 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We've scaled sufficiently.

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NM
Head of Department for IT Services at a government with 201-500 employees

It is scalable. We are not such a big company, but it suits our needs. We have less than 500 employees using this solution. We have three system administrators maintaining the solution. 

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MT
Program Architect (Microsoft) with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is a scalable product. We have over 100 users and we are growing towards a more virtualized solution.

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TN
Network Administrator at Automated Outsourcing services

Scalability really depends on how much you want to expand.

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

Not really, except for when they push out enough data that it requires additional dependencies that they didn't know about. Broke it on a Linux server, but that was just one time.

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NT
Founder at a non-profit with 1-10 employees

The solution could improve scalability.

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DB
IT & Security Team Leader at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is not that scalable or flexible.

On a scale from one to 5, I would rate the scalability a three.

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ST
Founder at a retailer with 1-10 employees

We have not yet explored this area. At the moment, I am the only user.

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

The scalability is good. It is enough for our needs. We are 40 users in our organization. We used a team of five to maintain the solution. 

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AH
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

It is scalable. 

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IS
Senior Principal Consultant at CCE

It is highly scalable. It is really easy to scale and implement. 

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

No.

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DN
Senior Buyer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We have approximately 20 users using the solution.

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

It can scale. We have 20 users of the solution who are in various positions at our office. We have two staff members to maintain the solution for our organization. 

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