Hyper-V Platform
Back Up Hyper-V Virtual Machines: The Ultimate Guide
April 16, 2024
If you’re running Microsoft Hyper-V machines, there’s no shortage of backup approaches to ensure recovery in different scenarios – from reco...
Differences Between VM Snapshots and Backups
January 22, 2024
Backups and snapshots are two popular technologies that enterprises use to mitigate data loss and minimize disruptions. In fact, backups and...
How to Disable Hyper-V in Windows
December 13, 2023
Microsoft Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor that you can install on Windows – including on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. In some scenario...
How to Convert OVA/OVF Files to Hyper-V VM
December 12, 2023
Microsoft’s Hyper-V is a native hypervisor for Windows, that is you can use it to run virtual machines (VMs) with different guest operating...
How to Migrate from VMware to Hyper-V
December 11, 2023
You may need to convert a VMware VM into a Hyper-V VM for different reasons. For example, you may have a multi-hypervisor environment, you m...
How Hyper-V High Availability Works
December 4, 2023
Today’s organizations need to ensure the 24/7 availability of their services. If an organization experiences downtime, the consequences are...
What Is VM Sprawl and How to Prevent It
November 20, 2023
Virtualization allows you to create a number of virtual machines on a single physical server. This technology provides several advantages, i...
Hyper-V vs VMware: Which One to Choose?
August 3, 2023
There are two major players that dominate the virtualization market: Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere. Selecting one of them to run virt...
Hyper-V Nested Virtualization Explained
July 25, 2023
Hyper-V nested virtualization is a feature that was first released with Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10, and available on workstations as...
Hyper-V or VirtualBox – Which One to Choose?
June 20, 2023
When you want to run a virtual machine, you have several hypervisors to choose from, including two of the most popular products: Oracle Virt...
Using Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Technology for Consistent Backups
June 16, 2023
When creating a backup of a virtual or physical machine with running applications, especially applications that intensively write data to fi...
What Is Hyper-V Resilient Change Tracking: Using RCT for VM Backup
June 9, 2023
When it comes to backup efficiency and copying only unique data blocks between full backups (that is, creating incremental backups), change...
How to Convert Hyper-V to VMware VM
June 1, 2023
VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V are both hardware virtualization platforms, but on some occasions, you might need to convert a Hyper-V...
Top 10 Facts About Hyper-V Snapshots
June 1, 2023
Taking storage snapshots has proven to be an extremely effective feature for those working in virtual environments. However, snapshot techno...
Understanding Hyper-V VM Licensing on Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V Server 2016
June 1, 2023
VM licensing has always been a confusing topic for many users due to the multitude of implications and liabilities that it entails. Currentl...
Hyper-V Checkpoints Best Practices
June 1, 2023
Virtualization has significantly changed the way businesses conduct their operations and provide services to customers. One of the most sign...
Deploying Hyper-V VDI: A How-To Guide
June 1, 2023
In any modern business environment, the ability to access services whenever and wherever they are needed is extremely important. In recent y...
How to Run Linux on Hyper-V?
June 1, 2023
Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor developed by Microsoft that can be enabled on Windows machines or installed as a standalone operating system...
How to Create a Fixed-Size Hard Disk for a Hyper-V VM
June 1, 2023
One of the topics mentioned that we want to take a closer look at here is how to create a fixed size hard disk on a guest Hyper-V VM. There...
Hyper-V Server Core vs GUI Installation: How They Compare
June 1, 2023
Starting with Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V has been available as a Windows Server role and as a standalone Hyper-V Server. There are essenti...