One of the critical infrastructure components to any virtualization environment is storage. After all, no matter how much compute, memory, or network resources you have configured or available, without storage, you won’t have anywhere to store virtual machines, and ultimately, your data. Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor [...]
High-availability is one of the key components of ensuring business continuity. Without it, downtime is going to be a foregone conclusion. By engineering solutions where high-availability is part of the overall build process leads to environments where business-critical data is protected from hardware and other [...]
Data is perhaps the most important asset of your business. In dealing with protecting your data today, you must account for conceivable data loss scenarios. The scale of a disaster may include a small amount of data loss to losing all the data in an [...]
There are many best practices when it comes to managing, administering, and configuring a Microsoft Hyper-V environment. Hyper-V is an enterprise-grade virtualization platform that allows hosting business-critical workloads in a highly-available, and resilient platform. When looking at key components of Hyper-V to ensure the guest [...]
What is Live Migration? You are performing Live Migration when you migrate virtual machines from one host to another without powering off the VM. This is especially useful for system administrators when they need to quickly restore operations for critical VMs or when they want [...]
Performance is absolutely crucial when it comes to any production environment. However, as is often the case, this is even more crucial in virtualized environments. The overall impact of performance degradation or improperly performing environments is felt across a much larger section of the production [...]
Virtualization has changed the way we provision server infrastructure, build out development environments, and purchase hardware. It has allowed great efficiencies in the enterprise data center that simply are not possible with running on physical servers to host mission critical workloads. The two major players [...]
Virtualization has provided so many great capabilities to organizations running their production, business-critical workloads on top of a hypervisor. However, before taking advantage of all the shiny new benefits to the virtualized environment, existing workloads must be moved to the new virtualized environment. When it [...]
In earlier versions of Hyper-V (before Windows Server 2012 R2), it was not possible to boot a Virtual Machine from a SCSI Virtual Hard Drive. It was also not possible to copy files from a Hyper-V Host to virtual machines without having a network connection [...]
Microsoft Hypervisor - Hyper-V was initially launched around 2008 with the Windows Server 2008 and its 1.0 VM configuration version. In the next releases Microsoft added Hyper-V add-on not only for Windows Servers but also for Windows Workstations - Windows 8.1 & Windows 10. With [...]
