One of the main tasks that IT, server, and virtualization administrators have on a daily basis is monitoring infrastructure. Monitoring becomes increasingly important in virtualized environments as resources for each VM are aggregated on the physical hosts they reside on. If resources become starved on [...]
Networking is at the heart of how data is able to be communicated from your IT infrastructure to end-users and other systems. There have been many advancements in the past several years in how networking is able to be managed and configured to span locations [...]
Virtual networking is at the core of what makes virtualizing server resources possible. There have been so many exciting developments in the world of networking which is possible through virtualizing and abstracting networking resources from the underlying hardware. Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V has made many [...]
Windows 8 Client Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V onwards VHDX is the new and default format of the virtual hard disk (VDH). Till Hyper-V 2008, everyone was using VHD format and it has many limitations and once the VHDX was available it had many [...]
Just like a physical machine, a virtual machine also requires a hard disk to function. In today’s blog post, we’ll discuss what virtual file formats are supported by Hyper-V and their types. We’ll also cover in detail about the different types of VHD/VHDX, and how [...]
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 [...]
