Hyper-V

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…

The technology of differencing disks in Hyper-V was presented by Microsoft quite a long time ago (in Hyper-V version for Windows Server 2008 if I’m not mistaken). Differential disks are…

The next useful innovation that appeared in Windows Server 2016 is the new format of virtual disks — VHD Set (VHDS) enabling the simultaneous use of one virtual disk by…