No, but HyperV is used extensively in the SMB space.
VMWare is popular for a reason, but its also insanely expensive if you only need an AD server and a file share.
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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoAs far as I know, none of the OSes used for virtualization hosts at scale by any of the major cloud infra players are Windows.
Not to mention: any company that uses any AWS or azure or GCP service is “using VMs” in one form or another (yes, I know I am hand waving away the difference between VMs and containers). It’s basically what they build all of their other services on.
Godort@lemm.ee 5 months ago
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Banks use VMs and banks were down without access to their systems to login into the VM, so they could work. They were bricked by extension.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
No, the clients were bricked. The VMs themselves were probably fine - and in fact, probably auto-rollbacked the update to a working savepoint after the update failed (assuming the VM infrastructure was properly set up).
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 5 months ago
He couldn’t login to the VM to access his work portals or emails, call it what you will, but one bricked computer affected thousands.