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Create Guest Clusters in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

Create a guest cluster using virtual machines with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and learn what Microsoft is doing to make guest clustering easier.

Last Update: Mar 04, 2024

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Using Shared VHDX to Create a Guest Cluster in Windows Server 2012 R2

Last Update: Mar 04, 2024

Learn how to use a shared VHDX to create a guest cluster on WS2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts.

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Disaster Recovery with Azure Backup for SQL Server VMs

Last Update: Sep 11, 2023

Running VMs in the cloud has become a big part of the modernization of IT infrastructure for most businesses. However, even though those VMs that are in the cloud, the backup mechanisms that they use to provide disaster recovery (DR) capabilities are essentially the same as they would use for on-premise VMs. They often use legacy technologies that require a lot of resources and are difficult to scale.

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Using a NAT Virtual Switch with Hyper-V

Last Update: Mar 14, 2023

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.

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Windows 10

How to Enable Nested Virtualization in Windows 10 Hyper-V

Last Update: Mar 14, 2023

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…

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Windows

How to Enable Hyper-V in Windows 10

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…

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Managing SMB Multichannel in SMB 3.0

Last Update: Feb 20, 2023

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.

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How to Stop an Unresponsive Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Last Update: Jun 27, 2022

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…

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Hyper-V Virtual Machine Groups

Last Update: Jun 27, 2022

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.

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Windows

How to Install Hyper-V on Windows Server Core

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…

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