Hyper-V Platform
How to Instantly Recover a Hyper-V Virtual Machine from a Backup with Flash VM Boot
September 15, 2026
Instant VM recovery in Hyper-V solves a common problem: when a business-critical Hyper-V VM goes down, a full restore can take hours, which...
Hyper-V GPU Passthrough: An Essential Guide for Beginners
August 26, 2026
Hyper-V virtual machines use an emulated graphics adapter by default, which is sufficient for basic display tasks but lacks the performance...
How to Convert a Linux Physical Machine to a VMware Virtual Machine
June 18, 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...
Hyper-V vs VMware: Which One to Choose?
June 12, 2026
Two major players dominate the virtualization market: Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere. Selecting one of them to run virtual machines de...
RAID vs JBOD: Best Storage Option for Hypervisor Backups
June 2, 2026
When configuring storage on local servers or Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, RAID and JBOD are the two common options. Both involve...
How to Convert Hyper-V to VMware: Complete Guide
April 30, 2026
Virtualization platforms like Hyper-V and VMware are essential for running flexible and scalable IT environments. As organizations evolve, t...
How Hyper-V High Availability Works
March 20, 2026
Organizations rely on continuous access to their applications and data, making service interruptions difficult to predict and even harder to...
Hyper-V Storage Migration Guide
December 23, 2024
Modern organizations are interested in being mobile, flexible, and efficient so as to remain competitive in the ever-changing market. Thus,...
How to Disable Hyper-V in Windows
December 18, 2024
Microsoft Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor that you can install on Windows – including on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. In some scenario...
Port Mirroring in Hyper-V: A Setup Guide
November 6, 2024
Troubleshooting is a common task for system administrators working with networks. Professional network equipment usually has features for mo...
Comprehensive Guide to KVM vs Hyper-V
October 9, 2024
Understanding the differences between KVM and Hyper-V is essential when building a virtualized environment to optimize hardware resource uti...
Differences Between VM Snapshots and Backups
September 3, 2024
Backups and snapshots are two popular technologies that enterprises use to mitigate data loss and minimize disruptions. In fact, backups and...
Back Up Hyper-V Virtual Machines: The Ultimate Guide
April 16, 2024
If you’re running Microsoft Hyper-V machines, there’s no shortage of backup approaches to ensure recovery in different scenarios – from reco...
How to Convert OVA/OVF Files to Hyper-V VM
December 12, 2023
Microsoft’s Hyper-V is a native hypervisor for Windows, that is you can use it to run virtual machines (VMs) with different guest operating...
How to Migrate from VMware to Hyper-V
December 11, 2023
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...
What Is VM Sprawl and How to Prevent It
November 20, 2023
Virtualization allows you to create a number of virtual machines on a single physical server. This technology provides several advantages, i...
Hyper-V or VirtualBox – Which One to Choose?
June 20, 2023
When you want to run a virtual machine, you have several hypervisors to choose from, including two of the most popular products: Oracle Virt...
Using Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Technology for Consistent Backups
June 16, 2023
When creating a backup of a virtual or physical machine with running applications, especially applications that intensively write data to fi...
What Is Hyper-V Resilient Change Tracking: Using RCT for VM Backup
June 9, 2023
When it comes to backup efficiency and copying only unique data blocks between full backups (that is, creating incremental backups), change...
How to Manage Hyper-V Integration Services
June 1, 2023
If you work in a virtual environment, you know that managing multiple host servers and virtual machines (VMs) can be a quite challenging tas...