Hyper-V Platform
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...
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...
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...
A How-To Guide on Setting Up Hyper-V VLANs
April 28, 2026
A virtual environment can consist of several physical servers, with multiple virtual machines (VMs) simultaneously running within each host....
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...
Top Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Features That Are Worth Your Attention
April 28, 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...
The Essentials of Windows Server Licensing for Virtual Machines
April 28, 2026
Organizations use the Windows Server OS on physical servers and virtual machines including Microsoft virtualized servers. Windows Server lic...
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...
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...
Understanding Hyper-V VM Licensing on Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V Server 2016
April 28, 2026
VM licensing has always been a confusing topic for many users due to the multitude of implications and liabilities that it entails. Currentl...
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 Hyper-V: A Step-By-Step Guide
April 28, 2026
Microsoft introduced their proprietary virtualization platform, Hyper-V, as a part of Windows Server 2008. Since its first release, Hyper-V...
Hyper-V Network Adapters: What, Why, and How
April 28, 2026
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...
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...
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...
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...