Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10
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I have a client that only has Windows 7 machines. Since Windows 7 doesn't have all the tools to manage Hyper-v 2016, I was looking at 3rd party managers. Does any one have one they really like? I was going to try 5nine today. Are there others I should look at?
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5Nine is really the leader and main player here. That's what I would use even if I had Windows 10
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@scottalanmiller said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
5Nine is really the leader and main player here. That's what I would use even if I had Windows 10
Yeah I use that, never used the Hyper-V manager in windows
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@hobbit666 said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@scottalanmiller said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
5Nine is really the leader and main player here. That's what I would use even if I had Windows 10
Yeah I use that, never used the Hyper-V manager in windows
I have, but only to look at it.
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Yeah 5Nine is essentially the only solution to consider here.
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@scottalanmiller said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@hobbit666 said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@scottalanmiller said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
5Nine is really the leader and main player here. That's what I would use even if I had Windows 10
Yeah I use that, never used the Hyper-V manager in windows
I have, but only to look at it.
Hyper-V Manager doesn't suck too badly in 2012 R2 -- at least to me.
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@dafyre said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@scottalanmiller said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@hobbit666 said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@scottalanmiller said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
5Nine is really the leader and main player here. That's what I would use even if I had Windows 10
Yeah I use that, never used the Hyper-V manager in windows
I have, but only to look at it.
Hyper-V Manager doesn't suck too badly in 2012 R2 -- at least to me.
It's just a very basic solution that doesn't work wonderfully.
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@dafyre said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@scottalanmiller said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@hobbit666 said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@scottalanmiller said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
5Nine is really the leader and main player here. That's what I would use even if I had Windows 10
Yeah I use that, never used the Hyper-V manager in windows
I have, but only to look at it.
Hyper-V Manager doesn't suck too badly in 2012 R2 -- at least to me.
Is "not sucking too badly" a good selling point? And 2012 R2 isn't cheap.
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@DustinB3403 said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@dafyre said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@scottalanmiller said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@hobbit666 said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@scottalanmiller said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
5Nine is really the leader and main player here. That's what I would use even if I had Windows 10
Yeah I use that, never used the Hyper-V manager in windows
I have, but only to look at it.
Hyper-V Manager doesn't suck too badly in 2012 R2 -- at least to me.
It's just a very basic solution that doesn't work wonderfully.
For me, it seems faster than 5nines a lot of times. Maybe just me. I've been saved by 5nines a few times though.
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@dafyre said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@DustinB3403 said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@dafyre said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@scottalanmiller said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@hobbit666 said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
@scottalanmiller said in Managing Hyper-V 2016 without Windows 8.1 or 10:
5Nine is really the leader and main player here. That's what I would use even if I had Windows 10
Yeah I use that, never used the Hyper-V manager in windows
I have, but only to look at it.
Hyper-V Manager doesn't suck too badly in 2012 R2 -- at least to me.
It's just a very basic solution that doesn't work wonderfully.
For me, it seems faster than 5nines a lot of times. Maybe just me. I've been saved by 5nines a few times though.
The interface seems faster? I've not used 5Nines enough to feel it lagging, I guess.
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5nine Manager is nice, and I like the monitoring it includes in the interface as well.
But you can fully manage your Hyper-V environment in Hyper-V Manager and FCM together.
5nine Manager does have some nice built in bonuses though... (centralized through the 5nine manager, versus setting it up on each Hyper-V server via Event Viewer for example)
- logging
- alerting
- reporting
- file transfers
- a ton of other things (that are useful, that'd you actually use)
Check this out for a quick look:
https://www.5nine.com/5nine-manager-for-hyper-v-product.aspx#compare
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Thank you for your feedback on 5nine Manager, guys.
Our goal is to provide an intuitive yet powerful product for complete centralized Hyper-V management experience.
It is now de-facto standard for managing environments with up to 20 Hyper-V host.Now we are going even further, and prepared a great product, that can help you scale, segregate user management roles with RBAC, automation support and even more. Enjoy!
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