How to Install Hyper-V 3.0 on Windows Server Core 2012. ... Windows Server Core is most efficient, and that's what we'll focus on here. To get started open a command prompt and type sconfig (see Fig.

In Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V was the focus, and in Windows Server 2016, Microsoft's focus was on security. This time around, Microsoft's primary focus seems to be on improving the hybrid cloud ...

I'm putting together some specs for a new server and am finding it requires a lot of thought and review to get things "perfect" if there is such a goal ...

When Windows Server 2016 was released, there was a lot of noise from Microsoft that Nano was the future and should be adopted for Hyper-V and storage hosts. Given that Microsoft has had a hard time ...

Windows Server 2016 instead makes change tracking a feature of Hyper-V itself, making it much easier for third-party backup vendors to support Hyper-V. Snapshots and checkpoints are dangerous for ...

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 backward.

Additionally, you can implement Hyper-V on a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 and take advantage of the stability and reduced overhead of that style of deployment as well.

So, I understand the reason for Core when the host is just running the Hyper-V role. I understand the reduced attack surface, less patching (which may lead to less reboots), and lower RAM ...

The latest test builds of the next version of Microsoft's Windows Server include a first look at Hyper-V 2019, plus a new analytics feature called System Insights.

A stripped-down version of Windows Server 2008 might be just the ticket for your agency's older servers. A stripped-down version of Windows Server 2008 might be just the ticket for your agency's older ...