Open the Hyper-V Manager by searching it out of the Start Menu. Now, go to the Actions section and click on New > Virtual Machine. You then have to enter the name of the machine, specify the ...

Figure 1: You can add a VMware vCenter server to System Center Virtual Machine Manager. To convert a virtual machine from VMware to Hyper-V, go to the VMs and Services workspace and select one of ...

How to Make Hyper-V Virtual Machines Highly Available. Here's how to use the Failover Cluster Manager to make virtual machines fault tolerant or to create new virtual machines. By Brien Posey; 07 ...

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 ...

Hot on the heels of Microsoft's release to manufacture of Windows Server 2008 R2 is System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, the essential management companion for Microsoft's Hyper-V ...

You might already know that you need to enter a name for your virtual machine whenever you create one, and it is possible to create multiple virtual machines on Hyper-V. By default, Hyper-V uses ...

Hyper-V can dynamically reassign memory from one virtual machine to another based on demand, and an improvement in Hyper-V 2012 called “Smart Paging” reduces the chances of memory contention ...

Altaro Hyper-V Backup Altaro. If you don’t need the enterprise level virtual machine management tools that come with System Center and just want backup, Altaro has a nice solution that you might ...

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.

Every virtual machine, including its root file system (VHD), is stored on the SAN using a clustered shared volume. Our SAN is a single appliance with 4 disks in RAID 10 (block-level LUN) over a ...