In Hyper-V, you can configure automatic startup and shutdown options for your virtual machines when you boot or restart your host OS. In this article, we’ll show how to configure…
My task is to create multiple internal IP subnets and configure routing between them on my standalone Hyper-V stand. By default, Hyper-V doesn’t route traffic between networks on virtual switches.…
Unlike VMWare, Hyper-V has not got a built-in feature to clone virtual machines (cloning is available only in Virtual Machine Manager). To create a full copy of an existing VM,…
One of the significant disadvantages of Hyper-V over other hypervisors (for example, VMWare ESXi or Proxmox) is the lack of a feature of redirecting USB devices from the host to…
Dynamic resizing of virtual machine hard disks is available starting with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2. Online VHDX Resize feature allows you to increase or shrink the size of…
When creating virtual machines in different hypervisors (VMWare, KVM, Hyper-V, etc.), you may see that sometimes a virtual machine may not see all virtual processor sockets (vCPU) assigned to it.…
This article discusses the specifics of organizing virtual machine backups in the Microsoft Hyper-V environment. We’ll look at the basic requirements for Hyper-V backup solutions, backup strategies, and the main…
In this article, we’ll look on licensing features of the Windows Server 2019, 2016 and 2012 R2 operating systems from the point of view of new Microsoft licensing model. Also,…