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... The budget is $14K CDN for new server ...

Organizations running server virtualization infrastructures often have to choose which hypervisor to implement. With the release of Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V, Microsoft has added another ...

A lot of Hyper-V administrators I talk to are historically Windows Server administrators, and while many things translate well; not everything does. Over the years, I've learned a few things about ...

Microsoft's virtualization platform has matured into a solid, dependable workhorse. Here's a primer for getting the most out of it. There's a gradual shift in the business world away from the market ...

With the Technical Preview (TP) 5 of Windows Server 2016 recently released, I thought I'd take the opportunity to cover all the new goodness coming in Hyper-V. TP 5 is apparently feature complete; ...

With Windows Server 2016, Microsoft has introduced a lengthy list of improvements to Hyper-V. Along with functional additions like container support, nested virtualization, and increased memory and ...

In this post, we’ll show you how to enable and configure Hyper-V Remote Management for headless Hyper-V hosts (Windows Server Core or Microsoft Hyper-V Server) from a Windows workstation, all in a non ...

If you've been following my writings on ZDNet for the last several years, you've probably realized by now that I am something of a virtualization and server technology junkie. In my day job as a ...

Like original offerings from market pioneer VMware and others, Microsoft's current server virtualisation product, Virtual Server 2005, is a hosted solution, designed to run as an application on top of ...

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V combines easy setup and management with new features that lower the entry barrier to highly available virtualization clusters With the release of Windows Server 2012, Hyper ...

Guys I put together a basic Hyper-V lab on Windows Server 2012 R2 in order to learn Hyper-V. The problem I'm running into is network cards. For my ESX lab I use the Intel Pro 1000 PT which works great ...

We then have to verify the connection. You need to run the command in PowerShell on your workstation and not the server. Test-NetConnection -ComputerName 192.168.21.30 -Port 5985 Make sure to replace ...