Managing Integration Services used to be a pain until Microsoft began including it in all Windows OSes, starting with Windows Server 2016. But administrators of older platforms don't need to be ...

One area Hyper-V 2016 may not improve is VM performance. In fact, my Sandra benchmark tests of a Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual machine on Hyper-V 2012 R2 versus Hyper-V 2016 indicate a step ...

Upgrading a Hyper-V server from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2 is a three-step process. In this article, I want to discuss the three steps involved.

One blog suggested that with a Server 2008 guest, you need to install the Hyper-V upgrade (KB 950050) on the guest OS, not just the host. I guess the Integration Services work for all supported ...

Last time, we were wrestling with the issue of getting a migrated Virtual Machine working with the Hyper-V “Integration Services.” You may recall that I was not having much success – the ...

Linux Integration Services is a driver package that provides “synthetic device support in supported Linux virtual machines under Hyper-V,” describes Microsoft in the product download page ...

Hyper-V is Microsoft’s hypervisor and arguably the best solution for creating a virtualized environment in Windows Pro, Enterprise, or Windows Server.A hypervisor is a virtual machine monitor and ...

Cloud.com is one of more than 30 companies that have joined the OpenStack effort and it will contribute the code for the Hyper-V integration back to OpenStack. Under the deal, Microsoft will provide ...

Microsoft is attempting to reintegrate support for Hyper-V back into OpenStack, months after the open source cloud-building project dropped support for the hypervisor in its latest release ...

Under the deal, Microsoft will provide "architectural and technical guidance to Cloud.com" for integrating the Hyper-V hypervisor in OpenStack. The idea is that Hyper-V, which is part of Microsoft's ...