Ars Technica

Using Hyper-V Server for things other than Hyper-V

For the hell of it, I decided to install Hyper-V Server on a system, uninstall Hyper-V, and then install VMWare Server 2.0 It was all accomplished with no real gotchas but lead me to a licensing ...
Virtualization Review

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2016 TP5: What's New and Cool

With the Technical Preview (TP) 5 of Windows Server 2016 recently released, I thought I'd take the opportunity to cover all the new goodness coming in Hyper-V. TP 5 is apparently feature complete; ...
InfoWorld

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V: More secure, but not faster

With Windows Server 2016, Microsoft has introduced a lengthy list of improvements to Hyper-V. Along with functional additions like container support, nested virtualization, and increased memory and ...
Redmond Magazine

Using Hyper-V Replication to Recover from a Data Loss Event

This morning I made a seriously bone headed move. I've got a project that I have been intermittently working on for the better part of a week. I wrapped the project up this morning, and while removing ...
Redmond Magazine

Hyper-V Best Practices Guide

A lot of contradictory information exists about Hyper-V, but there are some critical management practices that every Hyper-V shop should follow. I've been using Hyper-V since it was first released in ...
Hosted on MSN

I tried building a home lab with Hyper-V as a Proxmox user – here's how it went

Thanks to my obsession with DIY projects and server experiments, I’ve tinkered with all sorts of virtualization platforms, container runtimes, and hypervisors over the years. These range from popular ...
InfoWorld

First look: Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V shines on

Preview editions of Hyper-V 2012 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 pick up where the strong initial releases left off Hyper-V 3.0 was perhaps the shiniest of the shining-star ...
TechRepublic

Why Microsoft thinks you don’t need another free Hyper-V Server SKU

Why Microsoft thinks you don’t need another free Hyper-V Server SKU Your email has been sent Running Windows Server on your own infrastructure and using cloud services to do it offers lots of benefits ...
Ars Technica

Using hyper-V to consolidate home servers, is this too complicated?

Currently I have a SBS2003 server running on a T30 laptop (which is a step up from the P3-933 it was on before). I also have a WHS server running on an AthlonXP 3200+ (with 3 320GB IDE drives and 1 ...
Virtualization Review

Hyper-V: Under the Hood

Microsoft acknowledges the growth -- and the potential growth -- of the virtualization market with Hyper-V. It's Redmond's first enterprise-worthy virtualization product and is bundled with Windows ...
Bleeping Computer

How to Rename a Hyper-V Virtual Machine using PowerShell & Hyper-V Manager

You can now close Hyper-V Manager. Rename a Hyper-V virtual machine using PowerShell For those who wish to rename a Hyper-V virtual machine via the command line or through scripts, you can use ...