The ultimate goal of the networking capabilities from a hypervisor perspective is to allow the networking traffic from inside the virtualized environment to interface with the physical network so the packets can be sent on to their destination. While much communication happens right from within [...]

With today’s high-speed WAN links and tremendously powerful features of Windows Failover Clustering that powers Hyper-V environments, organizations have many capabilities at their fingertips to solve various business problems or various use cases. Microsoft supports a configuration of Windows Failover Clustering called Geographically Dispersed Clusters [...]

Hyper-V is a very flexible and capable hypervisor that offers many options for virtual machine compatibility and capabilities. In addition, Hyper-V enables admins to choose between two generations of virtual machines with pros and cons. Hyper-V administrators must select the generation of virtual machines that [...]

The Hyper-V virtual Ethernet adapter is a critical component of your virtual networking for Hyper-V virtual machines. It provides the software construct needed for the virtual networking of VMs and other virtual resources in your Hyper-V infrastructure. Let's consider Hyper-V virtual Ethernet adapter for beginners, [...]

Microsoft provides many options for standing up a virtualization platform with Hyper-V. There are a variety of options organizations can use to provision virtualized environments based on Hyper-V. However, like most enterprise software, Hyper-V requires licensing, which can differ depending on your solution for building [...]

Hyper-V provides an excellent platform for both Windows and Linux guest operating systems. Hyper-V administrators may want to install a Linux guest operating system to serve as a Linux-based container host to run containers. The Linux virtual machine approach to running containers with Hyper-V is [...]

Now that we have a general overview of Hyper-V Replication, let's look at how to set up the solution with two Hyper-V servers in a lab environment. Replication using two standalone servers is the most straightforward approach to Hyper-V Replication that helps build knowledge of [...]

When building out Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V environments, administrators need to certainly plan the environment according to recommended best practices from Microsoft. This would include building out a Hyper-V cluster for high availability that allows production workloads to withstand a number of failures at the [...]

Hyper-V Replication allows organizations to maintain exact copies of their virtual machines on a datacenter site in another location, like a DR facility. It enables you to recover your virtual environment in a disaster. This blog post will cover a basic overview of Hyper-V Replication [...]

In the previous post, we looked at the complete overview and installation of System Center 2019 Virtual Machine Manager or SCVMM. SCVMM is the ultimate management solution from a Microsoft perspective for managing Hyper-V cluster environments in production. It allows managing Hyper-V environments at scale [...]