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by Spooky23 1962 days ago
A place I worked at a few years ago tried running HyperV for some use cases where it had licensing benefits. ~5000 VMs out of about 50000, mostly on VMWare.

At the time, the MS tooling was garbage, and we had a lot of operational networking issues. I would pay close attention to the tooling and the ops team capabilities.

If you need to use windows in prod, use Windows. Trying to get past a policy constraint with a hack like that ultimately isn’t a good idea for a variety of reasons. It’s not saving you money if the business breaks.