Hyper-V is NOT Dead

The sysadmins at my firm just recently switched from VMWare to Hyper-V recently. The feedback I'm hearing is that they wish they did it sooner. It seems that hardware compatibility is much better with Hyper-V.

Hyper-V drastically accelerates Windows VM, even without a real graphics card passed through to the vm. And now it's being used as WSL2 backend makes its death quite a joke. Unfortunately no sound and virtual-gpu for Linux. But it runs Ubuntu server so reliably, that mostly if you have quite good hardware with many cores and 64Gigs RAM, sometimes it is even better to continue running Win11 or Server'22 and put all the nonGUI(Wayland or X11) Linux server infrastructure inside Hyper-v, it will roll it and roll.

In a previous role, we started virtualization with ESXi. But we needed to dozens of Windows Server VMs each year. Licensing this became too expensive, so we soon switched to Hyper-V using Windows Server Data Center, which allowed unlimited Windows Server VMs. It was not as feature rich as ESXi, but for licensing Windows Servers Hyper-V was a god-send for us.

Hyper-V is awesome, who has even suggested that?!

Hyper-V is basically the entirety of Xbox and Azure so I don't think they will ever discontinue it. KVM is probably better thanks to PCI passthrough.

MS realized that any enterprise that would run more than 6 MS VMs on Hyper-V would spend the $6k on a Datacenter license and then run all the VMs they wanted. So, there was no need for the free version of Hyper-V. Anyone who was not going to run MS VMs, instead running dozens of Linux VMs, was not going to even use Hyper-V, and thus would not need the free version. The free Hyper-V had no place anymore.

But it was a smart bare metal server to host Guest OS that could run Windows Server 2019 and 2022 R2 and July Updates. Now that resources are cheaper we can probably get away with running the Windows Server Standard and the GUI. They have done a huge job in slimming down the dist and performance of the machine. But don't we think we should run the domain controller as a Guest VM?

As a hyper v user in the enterprise and home lab , I love it and use it and making work with all my servers all across the world

WSL2 also relies on Hyper-V, with Hyper-V running bellow the NT and Linux Kernel.

Andrew, please make some videos on containers and docker

Great video. thanks. VirtualBox users, migrate to Hyper V in Windows 10/11 Pro. It is a Type 1 hypervisor, so VMs run much fatser than VirtualBox, which is Type 2.

MS support for hyper-v and its performance wasnt that good so my former employer switched back to vmware. After working for MS i found out that MS are ditching hyper-v in favour of a linux based hyper-visor they are developing, the code is already in the upstream linux kernel.

Great video

Hyper-V is dead - only for the LINUX DEVOTESS 🤣 Thank you, finally a clear view on Hyper-V 😍

KVM or BHyve + ZFS are where it's at.

KVM + ZFS is the future.

Question: you won't have to give Microsoft any more money? Well kind of. If you want to RDP into the server and manage Hyper-V that way then no. If you want a central management solution then you definitely will. You will also have to setup AD (active directory) well at least you used to have to. I switched to proxmox awhile back and i couldn't be happier.

Always preferred Hyper-V anyway.

Think you find HyperV won’t be gone. It’s run Azure and other services like Xbox. Simple. Hyperv Server is now the Azure Stack HCI. Otherwise Server Core is very much the same. However, Proxmox is going well.

Hyper-V has better, more mature replacements already.