While Hyper-V largely handles NUMA placement automatically, admins can still hurt VM performance by overallocating virtual CPUs past a single physical CPU's core count, making it important to size VMs ...

First introduced in Windows Server 2012 as an easy-to-configure, virtualization-based disaster recovery (DR) solution, Hyper-V Replica is now an integral part of DR in many businesses, small and large ...

I recently found myself in a situation in which I was forced to replace all of my Hyper-V servers (it’s a long story). In my haste to get back online, I made a ...

If you are dealing with various virtual machines, it is essential to give all of them a correct name. But if you have not done that when creating the machine, you can rename them as well. However, do ...

If the Hyper-V Virtual Machine is removed after reboot, ensure the host is updated. So, if you are on Windows 11/10 or Windows Server, make sure to check for updates. If the host machine is updated, ...

I would like to install OPNsense under Hyper V on my home Windows Server 2016 to evaluate it before buying separate hardware for OPNsense, aka try before I buy. I can dedicate both ports on a two port ...

VMware’s vSphere and Microsoft’s Hyper-V are the two leading platforms for server virtualization. Although they provide similar features and functionality, the way they manage storage for virtual ...

If we were having a discussion based on cost alone and didn’t have to bring features and management tools into the discussion, Hyper-V would already be the leading virtualizaton product compared to ...