Today’s business-critical workloads are more technology driven than ever before. Virtualization technology has allowed organizations today to be able to make real use out of the powerful physical device hardware available. Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor is gaining popularity and has matured over the last couple of [...]
There are many crucial components that make up any virtualization environment including the physical hosts, the storage, and the networking components. Focusing more on the networking side of things, the networking components allow the physical hosts to communicate with one another, with management tools, with [...]
There are various tasks that a Hyper-V administrator can perform to keep a Windows Server Hyper-V environment running optimally. One task that comes with maintaining and optimizing a Hyper-V environment is making sure the actual virtual disks themselves are running optimally and are efficiently sized. [...]
Hyper-V is widely adopted across businesses. As the logical next step, you need a backup solution to protect the VMs running on Hyper-V. Below is a checklist that will guide you through in selecting a backup solution for your Hyper-V environment. Backup virtual machines at [...]
At the core of the Hyper-V network is the Hyper-V virtual switch. Virtual switches provide the core functionality to move packets in and out of the hypervisor itself as well as interact with the physical network. The Hyper-V virtual switch provides powerful capabilities that mirror [...]
One of the great things that today’s modern hypervisor platforms allow us to do is run VMs inside of VMs. This is referred to as “nested virtualization”. This opens especially interesting use cases when you think of running a hypervisor inside a VM environment, such [...]
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 [...]
One of the various concerns of a Hyper-V administrator is troubleshooting the Hyper-V environment when problems arise. Common troubleshooting for Hyper-V environments may involve investigating issues around attached storage, networking issues, or perhaps performance issues that may exist in the environment. Whatever the issue may [...]
Windows Server 2016 has brought about many new and powerful features to Hyper-V. One of these powerful new features included with Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V is nested virtualization. In all of the previous releases of Windows Server Hyper-V, this has not been a feature that [...]
In part II of this series, we discussed the steps to convert VMware to Hyper-V using System Center 20160 - Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). In this third & final part, we will discuss, How to convert a VMware virtual machine to Hyper-V using Export/Importing options [...]
