VMware ESXi is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware for deploying and serving virtual computers by integrating vital OS components, such as a kernel; since as a type-1 hypervisor ...

Here's how to use the Failover Cluster Manager to make virtual machines fault tolerant or to create new virtual machines. One of the biggest disadvantages to running Hyper-V on standalone ...

Sometimes when you create a Hyper-V virtual machine, you may name it with a name that is not accurate or that you no longer wish to use. This article will provide three methods to rename a Hyper-V ...

In the Windows 10 era, new feature updates arrive every six months. Each one comes with a long list of new features as well as the risk that the upgrade will result in crashes, hangs, or other ...

One of the lesser-known capabilities of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) is its ability to convert VMware virtual machines so that they can run on Microsoft Hyper-V. I will tell you ...

Registering a virtual machine with the hypervisor is a handy tool that can be used when moving VMs between hosts, changing storage locations or even manual creation of virtual machines. Hyper-V 3 in ...

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...

While importing a virtual machine on Hyper-V, if you encounter an error stating ‘Hyper-V encountered an error while loading the virtual machine configuration ...

Last month we looked at how to set up nested VMs in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016. Azure, of course, runs on Hyper-V and some regions already have some of their hosts upgraded to Windows Server 2016.

Adding disk space to virtual machines is important to keep systems running properly and can be accomplished using Microsoft Server Hyper-V with either Hyper-V Manager or Failover Cluster Manager.