Hyper-V Platform
How to Convert Linux Physical Machine to a VMware Virtual Machine
April 15, 2026
What if you need to a recover physical server from backup, but a source physical server is damaged and there is no free physical machine tha...
How to Create a Fixed-Size Hard Disk for a Hyper-V VM
April 15, 2026
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...
How to Configure Hyper-V VMs in Windows Server 2016 and Newer
April 14, 2026
The point of setting up the Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V hypervisor is to host virtual machines. Once you have installed the Hyper-V role, th...
How to Convert a Physical Machine to Hyper-V VM
April 14, 2026
Virtualization provides an expansive list of advantages including easy migration, rational consumption of resources, scalability, etc. For t...
How Hyper-V High Availability Works
April 7, 2026
Today’s organizations need to ensure the 24/7 availability of their services. If an organization experiences downtime, the consequences are...
Tips and Tools for Microsoft Hyper-V Monitoring
April 3, 2026
The main advantages of hardware virtualization include logical isolation and rational resource usage. When using Microsoft Hyper-V, it is im...
Setting Up Hyper-V Replication Natively and with the NAKIVO Solution
April 3, 2026
Using virtual machine failover helps you avoid downtime if a disaster makes your primary environment unavailable. Failovers allow you to rec...
Top Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Features That Are Worth Your Attention
April 3, 2026
Microsoft Hyper-V was first introduced as a free server role within Windows Server 2008. Later, a standalone Windows Hyper-V Server was rele...
Top 10 Facts About Hyper-V Snapshots
April 3, 2026
Taking storage snapshots has proven to be an extremely effective feature for those working in virtual environments. However, snapshot techno...
Virtualization Applications Are Not Working: What Do You Do?
April 3, 2026
When you install a virtualization application on a Windows machine on which Hyper-V or related services are installed, errors can often occu...
Using VM Templates to Clone Hyper-V VMs
April 3, 2026
One major advantage of hardware virtualization is scalability. You can easily add virtual disks to your VMs, expand those virtual disks, exp...
File Recovery from VM Backup with NAKIVO
April 3, 2026
When it comes to recovery from backups, one of the core functionalities needed is recovering a file or files that may have been accidentally...
What Is a Failover? Clustering and Replication Use Cases
April 3, 2026
The availability of VMs is essential for ensuring business continuity. When the services running on business- and mission-critical VMs becom...
What Is System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
April 3, 2026
System administrators have a variety of tools at their disposal to manage Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructures, including Hyper-V Manager, Fail...
Using Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Technology for Consistent Backups
April 3, 2026
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
April 3, 2026
When it comes to backup efficiency and copying only unique data blocks between full backups (that is, creating incremental backups), change...
The Differences Between Hyper-V Generation 1 or 2
April 3, 2026
There are two generations of Hyper-V virtual machines – Generation 1 and Generation 2. The choice of VM generation is important when a VM is...
Hyper-V Backup Strategy: 15 VM Backup Best Practices
April 3, 2026
In a virtual environment, you can’t rely on the same backup principles that you use in a physical environment. You need to take the advantag...
Performing Hyper-V USB Passthrough: A Step-By-Step Guide
April 3, 2026
Virtualization technology enables the abstraction of computing, storage, and networking resources, meaning that you can create a virtual ver...
Full Overview of Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Best Practices
April 3, 2026
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...