HVPane — the operations console for Hyper-V estates

What it finds

The problems nobody has time to go looking for.

Every one of these is something you could check by hand, on one host, on a good day. HVPane checks all of them, everywhere, every run.

The HVPane Overview: seventy issues across thirty-six hosts and nine clusters, ranked by severity, each row carrying its next step. — **One page, the whole estate, ranked.** Seventy issues across nine clusters and eleven sites — every row carries the next step.Demo estate · synthetic data, not a customer’s

The Capacity view showing N-1 headroom per cluster. — **Headroom you can defend.** Not what is used — what still fits when you lose a node.Demo estate · synthetic data, not a customer’s

The Actions view with queued and completed operations, operator, target and reason. — **Fix it from the page you found it on.** Who ran it, where, and why — required on anything destructive.Demo estate · synthetic data, not a customer’s

Configuration drift: a node-by-node matrix highlighting hosts that disagree with their cluster. — **The one host set up differently, found.** A standing node‑by‑node matrix per cluster — evidence you can show, not a one-off report.Demo estate · synthetic data, not a customer’s

Ranked issues

Not a wall of green ticks. The things that matter, ordered by how much they matter.

What changed since yesterday

New issues, resolved issues, VMs added and removed, live migrations, hosts rebuilt.

Capacity, with N-1 headroom

Not just what is used. What still fits when you lose a node — before you lose one.

Forecasts

Days until a cluster hits 90% memory. Days until a volume fills. From your own history.

Checkpoints nobody deleted

Age and how much data they are holding. Who created them, wherever it was takenRequires Professional

Configuration drift

Node by node, across each cluster. The one host that was set up differently, found.

Patch readiness

Build levels against the newest in your own estate, drain-on-shutdown, CAU readiness.

Storage to the VHD chain

Volumes, ownership, and every differencing disk hanging off a machine you forgot about.

Placement

Anti-affinity that quietly stopped being true. Preferred owners. Clusters out of balance.

And then you fix it

Finding it is half the job.

Around twenty operations run from the same page you found the problem on. No jumping to a different console to act on what you just read. Reading the estate is free on Community; acting on it takes a paid edition.

StartStopRestart CheckpointDelete checkpointLive migrate Drain a nodeResumeMove volume ownership Patch a nodePatch a cluster

Role-gated. Enforced on the server, not hidden in the page.
Queued. Run across selected clusters, or the whole estate, without stampeding it.
Scheduled. Set it to run at 2am. It survives a restart.
Audited. Every action logged with who, what, where and why.

Why this exists

Nobody lands on Hyper-V for the tooling.

Most estates arrive here because a renewal quote changed, and the hypervisor turns out to be the easy part — Hyper-V is a role inside the Windows Server licences you already buy. What does not come with it is a way to see all of it at once. Every tool in the box is real and supported, and every one of them shows you a single host, a single cluster, or a single target at a time.

Read why HVPane exists

Where we stand

Three things we will not quietly change later.

It stays on your network

Self-hosted. Nothing about your estate is ever sent to us — there is no cloud account to create and no telemetry to opt out of. Anything that ever leaves your network will be because you connected it and switched it on.

Every host you own

Reading has no host limit — not on Community, not on a paid edition. Your estate does not get more expensive to look at because it grew. Paid features apply to the hosts you licence.

Community is free, and stays free

Community is not a trial that expires into a quote. It reads your whole estate — every host you own, for as long as you want. Acting on what it finds is what the paid editions are for.

Something out there is already wrong.