Hyper-V Platform
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...
How to Work with Hyper-V VHD and VHDX Files: Essential Basics
April 28, 2026
The release of Windows Server 2012 was warmly welcomed due to the introduction of multiple virtualization features, including the new VHDX f...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Top 10 Features in Windows Server 2019 Failover Clustering: Full Overview
April 28, 2026
As the demand for uninterrupted performance grows, modern businesses have started looking for new ways of ensuring 99.999% availability of t...
Hyper-V Backup Strategy: 15 VM Backup Best Practices
April 28, 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...
How to Request SSL Certificates from a Windows Certificate Server for Hyper-V
April 28, 2026
Hyper-V has built-in tools for VM replication from one Hyper-V host to another. This comes in handy for failover in a case of failure. Often...
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...
Top 7 Hyper-V Features in Windows Server 2019
April 28, 2026
The year of 2018 welcomed the release of Windows Server 2019, which mainly focused on solving the issues surrounding hybrid clouds, failover...
Hyper-V Virtual Machine Load Balancing
April 28, 2026
One of the main benefits of the virtualization of an environment is rational resources usage. When specific virtual machines are not needed,...