Administration Category
Virtualization Applications Are Not Working: What Do You Do?
June 1, 2023
When you install a virtualization application on a Windows machine on which Hyper-V or related services are installed, errors can often occu...
Hyper-V Best Practices for Administration
June 1, 2023
Flexibility, scalability, redundancy, and cost-efficiency… This is only a short list of benefits that Hyper-V can provide you with. While Hy...
Hyper-V Network Adapters: What, Why, and How
June 1, 2023
The previous blog post covered how to create a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM). However, creating a Hyper-V VM is merely the first step of buil...
Hyper-V Virtual Machine Load Balancing
June 1, 2023
One of the main benefits of the virtualization of an environment is rational resources usage. When specific virtual machines are not needed,...
Top 7 Hyper-V Features in Windows Server 2019
June 1, 2023
The year of 2018 welcomed the release of Windows Server 2019, which mainly focused on solving the issues surrounding hybrid clouds, failover...
How to Fix the Error: Hyper-V Checkpoint Operation Failed
June 1, 2023
A possible error when working with Microsoft Hyper-V checkpoints is the Hyper-V checkpoint operation failed error and other similar errors....
Complete Guide on How to Shrink and Compact Virtual Hard Disks in Hyper-V
June 1, 2023
When working with Hyper-V dynamically expanding disks, there is always a risk that those disks will grow uncontrollably and reach their maxi...
Full Overview of Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Best Practices
June 1, 2023
Hyper-V Dynamic Memory was first introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1. Prior to its release, a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) would s...
Tips and Tools for Microsoft Hyper-V Monitoring
June 1, 2023
The main advantages of hardware virtualization include logical isolation and rational resource usage. When using Microsoft Hyper-V, it is im...
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 Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Features That Are Worth Your Attention
June 1, 2023
Microsoft Hyper-V was first introduced as a free server role within Windows Server 2008. Later, a standalone Windows Hyper-V Server was rele...
Hyper-V Export and Import: What, Why, and How
June 1, 2023
One of the many benefits of virtualization is portability, meaning that you can easily move selected virtual machines (VMs) from one locatio...
How to Disable a Hyper-V VM Stuck in the Starting/Stopping State
June 1, 2023
Hyper-V is a well-known hardware virtualization platform that is popular because it is the native Windows hypervisor. Virtualization provide...
Top 10 Features in Windows Server 2019 Failover Clustering: Full Overview
June 1, 2023
As the demand for uninterrupted performance grows, modern businesses have started looking for new ways of ensuring 99.999% availability of t...
How to Merge Hyper-V Snapshots: A Step-By-Step Guide
June 1, 2023
There are times when you need to install OS updates or security patches on one of your guest virtual machines (VMs). However, the update pro...
Using VM Templates to Clone Hyper-V VMs
June 1, 2023
One major advantage of hardware virtualization is scalability. You can easily add virtual disks to your VMs, expand those virtual disks, exp...
How to Work with Hyper-V VHD and VHDX Files: Essential Basics
June 1, 2023
The release of Windows Server 2012 was warmly welcomed due to the introduction of multiple virtualization features, including the new VHDX f...
How to Convert a Physical Machine to Hyper-V VM
June 1, 2023
Virtualization provides an expansive list of advantages including easy migration, rational consumption of resources, scalability, etc. For t...
Essential Hyper-V PowerShell Commands: What They Are and How to Use Them
June 1, 2023
Managing Hyper-V environments can be a challenging task. Thus, you need a powerful management tool to configure and control your virtual inf...
Pros and Cons of Hyper-V Network Virtualization
June 1, 2023
Hyper-V Network Virtualization enables virtualization of network components and the building of integrated network infrastructure using hard...