For the hell of it, I decided to install Hyper-V Server on a system, uninstall Hyper-V, and then install VMWare Server 2.0 It was all accomplished with no real gotchas but lead me to a licensing ...

I want to install a full copy of Server 2008 R2 onto a USB drive and boot from that USB. Microsoft allows this configuration for Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, but says it's not possible for standard ...

Installing Hyper-V in Server 2008 is a matter of opening Server Manager and adding Hyper-V as a “role.” However, you don’t want to use the version of Hyper-V that comes with the Server 2008 DVD; you ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

The version of Server 2008 has to be 64-bit and RTM, not beta or Release Candidate. Finally, the Hyper-V RTM upgrade is not reversible, so if you’re nervous, back up your entire system before ...

A look at what's new in general and specifically for virtualization and containers in the next LTSC release, Windows Server 2019, due out in the second half of 2018. In case you haven't kept up with ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Microsoft HyperV provides a robust disaster recovery solution through its built-in replication features. This guide explains how to set up asynchronous VM transfers between Windows Server 2025 hosts.

Here's how you can expose the CPU features needed to run Hyper-V on Windows 10 instance being virtualized on VMware vSphere 6.5. Recently, I needed to try out some of the new Microsoft Hyper-V ...

Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band (OOB) Windows Server updates to address a known issue breaking virtual machine (VM) creation on Hyper-V hosts after installing this month's Patch Tuesday ...