Lab1, Lab2, Lab3, and Lab4 all run Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V, while Lab5 is running the Hyper-V Technical Preview (see Figure 3). Hence, multiple versions of Hyper-V can be managed through a ...

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.

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 ...

Hyper-V 2012, both on Windows Server 2012 and in standalone, can manage up to 320 logical processors and 4 terabytes of RAM; the virtual hosts running within the hypervisor can be configured with ...

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 ...

Welcome to this Hyper-V column, where I'll give you practical guidance to using new features and tips and tricks on running it efficiently. In this first article, we'll look at nested virtualization, ...

Cisco is also adapting its Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology to support Hyper-V in Windows Server 8, providing IT administrators the same type of management interface and ...

Virtual Server 2005 virtual switches behaved more like virtual hubs, because a VM connected to a virtual switch could potentially capture the unicast traffic of all other VMs connected to the same ...

If you need to be able to do these, you might want to consider the free Hyper-V Server product, or Windows Server 2012 R2. For additional information on the full feature set of Hyper-V, click here .

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.

With the release of its updated standalone Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 product, Microsoft claims to [finally] have a hypervisor to match that of market leader VMware. Moreover, by bundling newly added ...

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