One of the significant disadvantages of Hyper-V over other hypervisors (for example, VMWare ESXi or Proxmox) is the lack of a feature of redirecting USB devices from the host to…
Dynamic resizing of virtual machine hard disks is available starting with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2. Online VHDX Resize feature allows you to increase or shrink the size of…
When creating virtual machines in different hypervisors (VMWare, KVM, Hyper-V, etc.), you may see that sometimes a virtual machine may not see all virtual processor sockets (vCPU) assigned to it.…
Windows Hyper-V Server is a free hypervisor platform by Microsoft to run virtual machines. In this article, we’ll look on how to install and configure the latest version of Windows…
I came across an interesting issue when trying to install Linux CentOS on a virtual machine running on a Hyper-V server (the type of the virtual machine was “Generation 2”…
If your virtual machine running on Hyper-V is stuck for some reason, stopped to respond and doesn’t start/stop/reset after clicking the corresponding buttons in the Hyper-V console, the only way…
Although the Hyper-V environment provides quite a lot of technologies of high availability and fault tolerance for running virtual machines (such as failover clusters, Live Migration, replication, etc.), an administrator…
In this article, we’ll look on licensing features of the Windows Server 2019, 2016 and 2012 R2 operating systems from the point of view of new Microsoft licensing model. Also,…
One of the test tasks required to install Hyper-V virtualization role on Windows 10 virtual machine (applicable to Windows Server 2016 as well) running on a VMWare ESXi host. It…
When you administrating VMs run on virtualization hosts (VMWare ESXi or Hyper-V) and analyzing performance issues, you quite often face the situations when the size of available memory in the…