I'm looking to add an additional pair of network ports to my 2012R2 Hyper-V Hosts to better survive a single failure and perhaps offer a little extra throughput to the Guest VMs. As per my pic, I ...

One of the main sticking points with learning Hyper-V is getting your head around the Clustered Shared Volumes technique to provide .VHD files on a SAN to multiple Hyper-V hosts. The CSV technique is ...

I got a consulting gig! Standing up IT infra green field for friends startup. Network is up. Everything is dual leg and segregated into VLANs. Now standing up the management Hyper-V cluster which will ...

Brien details the pros and cons of Hyper-V replication versus clustering, and what scenarios work best for each method. For several years now, I have been using Hyper-V's replication feature to ...

Here are some inital thoughts at the first test build of the upgraded Microsoft hypervisor server shows improved migration, upgraded Hyper-V Manager and new VM versions. Microsoft last month delayed ...

Running a bunch of hyper-v virtual machines that matter? You’ll want a high availability cluster. Of course you’ll also want to take backups of those VMs as well. Prior to moving your VMs into the HA ...

It turns out that Hyper-V has had a versioning for virtual machine (VM) configuration files, with the original release in Windows Server 2008 being version 1, all the way up to Windows Server 2012 R2 ...

Late to the virtualization game, Microsoft has been running several lengths behind the competition in this space for years. However, the new features and strong performance present in Windows Server ...