Virtualization has been around for quite a long time. It has evolved from a technology used mainly to save space into a corporate strategy that has been adopted worldwide. It is the most effective way to improve IT efficiency while also cutting down on costs. [...]
Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization software that allows virtual machines to be created by virtualizing the OS and all hardware components. The ability to move virtual machines from one location to another without downtime is one of the main benefits of virtualization. Hyper-V also provides [...]
One of the key benefits of virtualized environments is the ability to build very highly available solutions for running business-critical workloads. Today’s hypervisors like VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V have high-availability features that can be enabled at the physical host cluster level that allows virtual [...]
Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor has matured quickly in the enterprise datacenter as a fully-featured hypervisor. Especially with the last couple of Windows Server versions (Windows Server 2016 and 2019), Hyper-V has received many of the features and capabilities that help to move it very close to [...]
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 [...]
