Recently I have received several messages from people who have had trouble getting Hyper-V to work, particularly after installing some of the recent patches released by Microsoft. As such, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about some of the things that you can [...]
Hyper-V has been around for long enough that most of its features are well known. Even so, there are a few somewhat obscure features that are actually pretty cool. In this blog post, I want to take the opportunity to tell you about five of [...]
Hyper-V is Microsoft’s current generation hypervisor. Unlike earlier Microsoft virtualization solutions, such as Virtual PC, Hyper-V uses hardware assisted virtualization. This means that virtual machines do not require hardware emulation (except in special circumstances), and instead communicates directly with the underlying hardware. Consequently, a virtual [...]
With VMware’s VMworld conference coming up in a few weeks, followed shortly by Microsoft Ignite, this seemed like a good time to discuss the topic of which company’s hypervisor is a better fit for your organization. You will notice that I did not say that [...]
Hyper-V backups can fail for any number of reasons, but there are some things to look for when backups don’t work the way that they are supposed to. The techniques discussed in this article are not specific to any one particular backup application, but instead, [...]
Throughout my IT career, I have found that the key to learning a new skill is to learn the terminology that is associated with the particular product or technology that I am trying to learn. After all, the associated terminology will have been used in [...]
Microsoft has long offered a free version of Hyper-V, which is simply known as Hyper-V Server. Even though, Hyper-V Server has received an undeserved reputation for being impractical and difficult to manage. In reality, however, you can do nearly anything with the free Hyper-V Server [...]
Because Hyper-V runs as a role on Windows Server, it might stand to reason that backing up a Hyper-V host works in exactly the same way as backing up any other Windows Server. Although a Hyper-V host is at its core just a Windows server, [...]
Going into 2018, ransomware remains one of the most serious threats to data, for both businesses and individuals. By far the most important thing that anyone can do to protect themselves against ransomware is to perform frequent data backups. Backup restoration is the only reliable [...]
Nested virtualization tends to be one of the more under rated Hyper-V features, but has its place nonetheless. First introduced in Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 Anniversary Update, the nested virtualization feature allows administrators to run Hyper-V inside of a virtual machine. Why is [...]
