Hyper-V Platform

How To Use Hyper-V Differencing Disks: A Complete Guide

June 1, 2023
Virtual hard disks are rightfully considered an essential part of a Hyper-V environment as they provide digital storage space for securing c...

The Essentials of Windows Server Licensing for Virtual Machines

June 1, 2023
Organizations use the Windows Server OS on physical servers and virtual machines including Microsoft virtualized servers. Windows Server lic...

Best Hyper-V Management Tools for Your Virtual Environment

June 1, 2023
In 2008, Microsoft introduced Hyper-V as its own virtualization platform, allowing users to create and run multiple virtual machines (VMs) w...

How to Create a Fixed-Size Hard Disk for a Hyper-V VM

June 1, 2023
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...

Hyper-V Networking Best Practices

June 1, 2023
In most cases when you deploy virtual machines (VMs) on Hyper-V, you need to configure network access for VMs according to your tasks. The c...

Tape Backup vs Disk Backup for VMs

June 1, 2023
In recent years, there has been a significant shift toward disk-based backup in terms of media used as targets by data protection solutions....

How to Speed Up VM Backups and Improve Performance

June 1, 2023
In 2022, it is estimated that more than half of businesses worldwide use virtualization technologies and rely on backups to protect their vi...

How to Install ESXi on Hyper-V

June 1, 2023
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...

How to Configure Hyper-V VMs in Windows Server 2016 and Newer

June 1, 2023
The point of setting up the Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V hypervisor is to host virtual machines. Once you have installed the Hyper-V role, th...

How to Convert Linux Physical Machine to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

June 1, 2023
What if you need to a recover physical server from backup, but a source physical server is damaged and there is no free physical machine tha...

File Recovery from VM Backup with NAKIVO

June 1, 2023
When it comes to recovery from backups, one of the core functionalities needed is recovering a file or files that may have been accidentally...

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...

What Is System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)

June 1, 2023
System administrators have a variety of tools at their disposal to manage Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructures, including Hyper-V Manager, Fail...

Hyper-V Export and Import: What, Why, and How

June 1, 2023
One of the many benefits of virtualization is portability, meaning that you can easily move selected virtual machines (VMs) from one locatio...

How to Install Hyper-V Core: Step-By-Step Guide

June 1, 2023
What’s involved in building a Hyper-V virtual environment? First and foremost, you need a reliable and efficient Hyper-V host on which your...

Hyper-V Virtual Switches: Types and Configuration

June 1, 2023
Microsoft Hyper-V is one of the leading hypervisors used to deploy a virtual infrastructure and create virtual machines (VMs). In an environ...

Deploying Hyper-V VDI: A How-To Guide

June 1, 2023
In any modern business environment, the ability to access services whenever and wherever they are needed is extremely important. In recent y...

Hyper-V Checkpoints Best Practices

June 1, 2023
Virtualization has significantly changed the way businesses conduct their operations and provide services to customers. One of the most sign...

How to Replicate, Restore, and Fail over Using Hyper-V Nested Virtualization on Azure

June 1, 2023
Disaster recovery presumes the presence of at least one secondary site that is referred to as a disaster recovery site. A remote datacenter...

Top 10 Facts About Hyper-V Snapshots

June 1, 2023
Taking storage snapshots has proven to be an extremely effective feature for those working in virtual environments. However, snapshot techno...