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 ...

If you are getting Hyper-V encountered an error while copying virtual hard disks to destination folder while importing a virtual machine, check out these tips to get ...

But to really make things hum, you need to know about something called Hyper-V Integration Services. Think of them as the ...

Before we go ahead and start moving our virtual machines, you need to ensure that your machines are shut down. Otherwise, there is a high chance that the newly created virtual machine will either be ...

In an interesting twist, Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 8 will feature the first-rate, enterprise-echelon Hyper-V(Opens in a new window) machine virtualization hypervisor. This will mean that ...

Here are some reasons why your Hyper-V virtual machines might fail to shut down and how you can troubleshoot this recurring issue. Occasionally, you may find that when you attempt to use the Hyper-V ...

In an effort to leverage good ol’ Windows passthrough authentication, I created an account on my Vista machine and another account with identical credentials on my Server machine… then I fired up ...

Once I got the role installed (and fixed the multitude of disk problems), I thought I’d give Hyper-V a try with a Virtual Hard Drive built on the previous top-of-the-line platform, Virtual Server 2005 ...

Converting virtual machines from VMware to other formats or platforms is a common requirement for various reasons, such as migration to different hypervisors, testing, or optimizing resource usage.

Ransomware groups are targeting hypervisors to maximize impact, allowing a single breach to encrypt dozens of virtual machines at once. Drawing on real-world incident data, Huntress explains how ...

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 ...

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 ...