Hyper-V Platform
How to Create Hyper-V Virtual Machine: Complete Walkthrough
April 28, 2026
The goal of most organizations is to grow and expand over time. While meeting this goal, an organization also often finds it more difficult...
Failover Vs Failback: Key Differences in Disaster Recovery
April 28, 2026
In the modern world, any business could suffer from corruption of data and disruption of mission-critical operations from time to time. Howe...
How to Convert a Physical Machine to Hyper-V VM
April 28, 2026
Virtualization provides an expansive list of advantages including easy migration, rational consumption of resources, scalability, etc. For t...
Hyper-V Checkpoints Best Practices
April 28, 2026
Virtualization has significantly changed the way businesses conduct their operations and provide services to customers. One of the most sign...
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 vs VMware: Which One to Choose?
April 28, 2026
There are two major players that dominate the virtualization market: Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere. Selecting one of them to run virt...
How to Migrate from VMware to Hyper-V
April 28, 2026
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...
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...
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,...
Hyper-V or VirtualBox – Which One to Choose?
April 28, 2026
When you want to run a virtual machine, you have several hypervisors to choose from, including two of the most popular products: Oracle Virt...
The Differences Between Hyper-V Generation 1 or 2
April 28, 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...
What Is a Failover? Clustering and Replication Use Cases
April 28, 2026
The availability of VMs is essential for ensuring business continuity. When the services running on business- and mission-critical VMs becom...
Hyper-V Storage Best Practices
April 28, 2026
Storage is one of the most important components involved with servers; this includes virtualization servers that have a hypervisor installed...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Differences Between VM Snapshots and Backups
April 28, 2026
Backups and snapshots are two popular technologies that enterprises use to mitigate data loss and minimize disruptions. In fact, backups and...
How to Create a Fixed-Size Hard Disk for a Hyper-V VM
April 28, 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...