Microsoft's Hyper-V snapshots feature is a convenience, not a backup replacement. But with different cloud vendors using the term 'snapshots' in different ways, that's easy to forget.

I am running a Hyper-V server and have several VMs that I have multiple snapshots based on what gets changed and/or updated to the VM.For example...HV01 - Sever 2008 StandardI take a snapshot ...

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 ...

Snapshots A common misconception is that Hyper-V snapshots are some form of backups -- they're definitely not. They're simply a way of capturing a snapshot of a VM at a given time and allows you to ...

Ok, so one of the guys at our company expanded a hard drive on a Hyper-V client without merging all the snapshots first.Suffice to say, it isn't good, and the way we had our backups set up didn't ...

Munder Capital Management used Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology and Compellent SANs to revamp its disaster recovery strategy, eliminate 42 servers and slash cooling costs. Here's a look ...

Today Microsoft released Insider Preview Build 16179 for PC and Insider Preview Build 15205 for Mobile to insiders on the fast ring, Of particular note is the introduction of Hyper-V snapshots and ...

For example, in Hyper-V, “snapshots” are completely misleading. They are not full backups of the VHD file, like one might expect.

Microsoft announced availability of release candidate 1 of its Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor Tuesday.The add-on for Windows Server 2008 is now available for ...

We run the rule over the key functionality in Microsoft Hyper-V that can help with disaster recovery, including backup, migration, high availability and replication ...

Backups in Hyper-V can sometimes be a bit shaky, due to a reliance on the underlying Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) system. Windows Server 2016 instead makes change tracking a feature of Hyper-V ...