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Maximize Hyper-V Live Migration with 10GbE Network Bandwidth

Learn how to make the most of 10GbE or faster networking to make that Hyper-V live migration quicker in this handy article.

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Happy 10th Birthday Hyper-V!

Last Update: Mar 14, 2023

On February 19, 2003, Microsoft announced that the corporation has acquired a privately held virtualization vendor called Connectix. It might not have seemed like it then, but this acquisition was the genesis of something huge in the IT world, and I’m not limiting that to just Hyper-V.

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Microsoft’s Changed Opinion on Hyper-Convergence

Read how Microsoft’s view and recommendations on hyper-convergence have changed over the last year with the evolution of Storage Spaces Direct (S2D).

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Azure IaaS Announcements at AzureCon

Microsoft announced a number of improvements to Azure, including new services, price reductions, and virtual machines that affect IT pros.

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Disable the Integrity Bit of VHDs Copied to an ReFS Volume Using PowerShell

Use PowerShell cmdlets to get your VM with copied virtual hard disks up and running on a ReFS volume! Learn how in this guide.

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Why Blade Servers are the Wrong Choice

Considering the purchase of blade servers for your IT department? Aidan Finn argues that blade servers are the wrong choice for today’s data center.

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What is Hyper-Convergence?

In this post Aidan Finn explains what hyper-convergence is and asks the question: Is hyper-convergence the right way to go?

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What is Windows Server ODX?

Aidan Finn serves up tips for working with Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) to enhance storage transfers in Windows Server and Hyper-V.

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Reviewing My Hyper-V Predictions For 2014

In this retrospective, Aidan Finn reviews and grades his Hyper-V predictions for 2014. Find out which predictions turned out to be true this year.

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Patching Hyper-V Clusters

Patches are your friend. Learn to patch Hyper-V in a failover cluster with Windows Server 2012 Cluster Aware Updating and System Center 2012 SP1 VMM.

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