Hyper-V

Create a Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 (WS2016) Hyper-V virtual switch that uses network address translation (NAT), enabling virtual machines to be isolated behind a single shared IP address on the host.

Hyper-V is the built-in hypervisor that comes free in Windows and Windows Server. It is used to run virtual machines (VM) on Windows. Virtualization is also used for other features, like Virtualization-Based Security (VBS), Windows Sandbox, and Windows Defender Application Guard (WDAG). Developers sometimes use virtualization with Visual Studio to run device emulators. Microsoft introduced…

Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions contain a free virtualization software named Hyper-V. The underlying code works nearly the same as what’s provided in Windows Server. In this article, I will discuss how to enable Hyper-V on Windows 10, how to create your first virtual machine, and briefly talk about nested virtualization. How to…

In part one of this article series, Aidan Finn shows how to design and manage SMB Multichannel in SMB 3.0, which is a data protocol that is available in Windows Server 2012 R2.

It doesn’t happen that often but sometimes Hyper-V virtual machines (VM) hang when you are trying to shut them down. And you end up with a VM in Hyper-V Manager with a status of ‘Shutting down’ that no longer responds, and it can’t be forced to shut down using the normal controls. Even the PowerShell…

Aidan Finn shows you how to use virtual machine groups on Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V to manage a set of virtual machines, including adding support for operational actions on VHDX Sets.

If you want to use Hyper-V on Windows Server Core, you’ll have to do that without a Graphical User Interface (GUI), which requires some knowledge about the different Hyper-V installation options? We’re going to explore them all in that guide, and we’ll also explain why you may find Windows Server Core to be a great…

Microsoft has released a special ‘Hyper-V Server‘ core edition with every release of Windows Server Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC 2012 R2, 2016, 2019). This past summer, while Windows Server 2022 was being developed and finalized, questions arose amongst IT Pros (hey, that rhymes…someone set that to music right away) about the possibility of Hyper-V Server…

While there’s no doubt that the use of the cloud and containers are rapidly growing, the reality is that server virtualization is and will remain the core technology for running the vast majority of enterprise applications in the foreseeable future.