Hyper-V Platform
Full Overview of Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Best Practices
April 28, 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...
Top 10 Facts About Hyper-V Snapshots
April 28, 2026
Taking storage snapshots has proven to be an extremely effective feature for those working in virtual environments. However, snapshot techno...
How to Merge Hyper-V Snapshots: A Step-By-Step Guide
April 28, 2026
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...
Hyper-V Disaster Recovery Best Practices
April 28, 2026
In virtual environments, the expectations for service availability and business continuity are very high. Companies today are expected to ru...
How to Install ESXi on Hyper-V
April 28, 2026
One of the previous blog posts explained Hyper-V nested virtualization as well as the installation of a virtual Hyper-V server on a VM that...
Using VM Templates to Clone Hyper-V VMs
April 28, 2026
One major advantage of hardware virtualization is scalability. You can easily add virtual disks to your VMs, expand those virtual disks, exp...
What Is Hyper-V Resilient Change Tracking: Using RCT for VM Backup
April 28, 2026
When it comes to backup efficiency and copying only unique data blocks between full backups (that is, creating incremental backups), change...
How to Copy Files to Hyper-V Server and VMs: 7 Methods
April 28, 2026
Hyper-V is a hypervisor, which runs on Windows, and can be managed directly on the machine where it is installed as well as remotely. Often,...
Using Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Technology for Consistent Backups
April 28, 2026
When creating a backup of a virtual or physical machine with running applications, especially applications that intensively write data to fi...
How to Install Hyper-V Core: Step-By-Step Guide
April 28, 2026
What’s involved in building a Hyper-V virtual environment? First and foremost, you need a reliable and efficient Hyper-V host on which your...
How to Convert a Linux Physical Machine to a VMware Virtual Machine
April 28, 2026
When a Linux physical machine fails or needs to be modernized, rebuilding it manually can be time-consuming and error-prone. Physical-to-vir...
Pros and Cons of Hyper-V Network Virtualization
April 28, 2026
Hyper-V Network Virtualization enables virtualization of network components and the building of integrated network infrastructure using hard...
File Recovery from VM Backup with NAKIVO
April 28, 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...
Setting Up Hyper-V Replication Natively and with the NAKIVO Solution
April 28, 2026
Using virtual machine failover helps you avoid downtime if a disaster makes your primary environment unavailable. Failovers allow you to rec...
How to Manage Hyper-V Integration Services
April 28, 2026
If you work in a virtual environment, you know that managing multiple host servers and virtual machines (VMs) can be a quite challenging tas...
NTFS vs ReFS: Which One to Choose?
April 28, 2026
Hyper-V environments can’t properly function without reliable storage in place, as it has a significant impact on the virtual machine (VM) p...
Hyper-V Best Practices for Administration
April 28, 2026
Flexibility, scalability, redundancy, and cost-efficiency… This is only a short list of benefits that Hyper-V can provide you with. While Hy...
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 vs. Hyper-V Role
April 28, 2026
Since 2008, Microsoft has provided two deployment options for the Hyper-V hypervisor – a standalone installation of Hyper-V Server and a Hyp...
Host vs Guest-Level Hyper-V Backup
April 28, 2026
When using Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform, backing up your virtual machines is of critical importance. To keep your VM data saf...
How to Configure Hyper-V VMs in Windows Server 2016 and Newer
April 28, 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...