One of the various concerns of a Hyper-V administrator is troubleshooting the Hyper-V environment when problems arise. Common troubleshooting for Hyper-V environments may involve investigating issues around attached storage, networking issues, or perhaps performance issues that may exist in the environment. Whatever the issue may [...]

Table of Contents Advantages of VHDX Methods to Convert a VHD to VHDX Points to be noted before conversion Convert VHD to VHDX using Hyper-V Manager Convert VHD to VHDX using PowerShell Change the Disk Physical Sector Size VHD and VHDX are virtual hard disk [...]

Read More: Beginners’ Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: Hyper-V P2V Conversion – Part-55 There are many types of hard disks when working with a Hyper-V virtualization environment. We have previously taken a look at VHD and VHDX disks. However, you need to be aware of another [...]

Read on: Beginners’ Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: Hyper-V USB Passthrough – Part-54 Undoubtedly, one of the coolest things you can do with a hypervisor like Hyper-V is to pull an existing physical machine into a virtual machine. This process is called a "P2V," or physical [...]

Windows Server Hyper-V clusters are built on top of Windows Server Failover Clusters which provides the underlying mechanism for high availability and resource distribution for Hyper-V. Windows Failover Clustering is able to protect production workloads running on top of multiple hosts by utilizing a special [...]

In the last post, we took a look at how to configure basic Hyper-V virtual machine CPU resources and settings. Hyper-V contains a wide range of settings that affect and control how the hypervisor allocates CPU resources from the physical host over to the virtual [...]

Read on: Beginners’ Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: Manage Hyper-V on Windows Server Core – Part 50 We have looked at running Hyper-V nested virtualization on-premises in one of our previous blog. However, we can also configure Hyper-V nested virtualization in Microsoft Azure. It allows admins [...]

Quick Bites The blog post explains how to perform a live migration of Hyper-V virtual machines without using failover clustering It covers the benefits of live migration, such as moving VMs between physical servers with no downtime, and details the steps involved, including configuring servers [...]

Table of Contents Creating Hyper-V Virtual Switches Configuring Virtual Switch in Hyper-V using Hyper-V Virtual Switch Manager Private Virtual Switch Internal Virtual Switch External Virtual Switch Creating Hyper-V Virtual Switches with PowerShell Concluding Thoughts In the previous post, we looked at the overview of Hyper-V [...]

Read on: Beginners’ Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V: What is Hyper-V Azure Site Recovery – Part 49 Running Hyper-V inside a Windows Server Core installation or Hyper-V Server means running your Microsoft virtualization environment on top of Windows Server Core. Windows Server Core is a stripped-down [...]