Hyper-V

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    Windows Admin Center Preview 1808 Hyper-V Cluster and VM Management New Features

    With the recent release of Windows Admin Center Preview 1808, there have been some really additions to this particular build. With Windows Admin Center Preview 1808, Hyper-V management has certainly gotten better for both Hyper-V hosts and Hyper-V hosts in…

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    Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Containers

    Containers are certainly all the rage in the world of virtualization and are the next evolution in how businesses deploy and host applications and perform development. Containers offer several advantages over full blown virtual machines when it comes to efficiency,…

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    Hyper-V Cluster MPIO iSCSI Installation and Configuration

    When configuring storage for Windows Server Hyper-V clusters with SAN storage, you always want to make sure you have multiple paths to your storage for redundancy and performance. With SAN storage and iSCSI you won’t want to utilize link aggregation…

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    VMware vs Hyper-V Nested Virtualization

    Nested virtualization provides tremendous value for virtualization administrators whether running in VMware or now with Hyper-V environments running Windows Server 2016 as base for the Hyper-V role. Nested virtualization brings to the table many benefits including hypervisor hosted containers, dev/test…

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    Creating High Availability Hyper-V Virtual Machines

    Windows Server Hyper-V provides a solid platform for organizations looking to virtualize production workloads on a Windows hypervisor platform.  It has certainly matured over the past few versions of the hypervisor and is getting more powerful from the standpoint of…

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    Use Snapshots in Production with Hyper-V Production Checkpoints

    For most virtualization admins who have spent any time in the trenches with administering virtual environments, snapshots are just a bad thing for most use cases, especially production workloads.  We have all most likely been in situations where snapshots caused…

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    Backup Hyper-V clusters with Nakivo

    Nakivo Backup & Replication provides a powerful means to backup multiple hypervisors including VMware, AWS instances, and also Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Especially cool with the Hyper-V support is the ability to protect Hyper-V Failover Cluster environments. This functionality was introduced…

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    Hyper-V backups saved state vs child VM snapshots

    When thinking about backing up Hyper-V workloads, we want to consider the mechanisms that can be used to perform the backup of the virtual machines.  Hyper-V can use two means for backing up virtual machines – the “saved state method”…

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    Differences between Storage Spaces and Storage Spaces Direct

    “Software Defined” is all the rage these days with vendors looking at ways to abstract core functionality and features away from the underlying hardware. Software defined storage is an especially hot topic. Microsoft has a couple of technologies out there…

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    Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.1 supports Hyper-V Cluster Backups

    Nakivo is certainly keeping a blistering pace of new features and functionality within the Backup & Replication product. The Nakivo Backup & Replication v7 release was huge in the features and functionality released including the ability to backup Hyper-V servers.…