Matt Wrock Automate the Complete Windows Environment Setup and Configuration Boxstarter is an open-source application that enables you to do the unattended install of everything required to turn bare metal, Azure VM or Hyper-V VM... 25 March 2014 20 min read
Nirmal Sharma Book Review: Optimizing And Troubleshooting Hyper V Networking 2013 If you want to learn how to optimize and troubleshoot Hyper-V, then this book, written by Microsoft people whose day job is to assist customers... 11 February 2014 10 min read
Nirmal Sharma Hosting SQL Server in Hyper-V Replica Environment A Hyper-V replica will provide a rapid disaster-recovery by simply replicating to a standby site a VM running at the primary site. Is it, therefore,... 04 February 2014 26 min read
Nirmal Sharma A Practical Guide to Microsoft Hyper-V Replica: Part II A Hyper-V replica installation provides rapid disaster-recovery by asynchronously replicating a VM running at a primary site to a replica site. Know how to prepare... 12 September 2013 14 min read
Nirmal Sharma A Practical Guide to Microsoft Hyper-V Replica: Part I A Hyper-V replica installation provides a great opportunity for providing rapid disaster-recovery by asynchronously replicating a VM running at a primary site to a replica... 10 June 2013 34 min read
Nirmal Sharma Hyper-V Migration Technologies Hyper-V has become far more sophisticated since the release V3 of Windows 2012, but it means that there are now a number of alternative ways... 21 March 2013 29 min read
Nirmal Sharma Book Review: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook is a comprehensive resource for administrators and consultants looking for practical examples of Hyper-V technology. Beginners unfamiliar with Hyper-V and... 15 February 2013 8 min read
Nirmal Sharma Microsoft Hyper-V Networking and Configuration – Part III A configuration of Hyper-V networking across two or more Hyper-V Hosts is the most complex type. It needs to be configured according to the business... 14 February 2013 17 min read
Nirmal Sharma Microsoft Hyper-V Networking and Configuration – Part 2 Hyper-V Networking can be configured to meet a wide range of requirements, but it isn't always obvious which choices are appropriate when configuring the virtual... 10 January 2013 16 min read
Jaap Wesselius Hyper-V R2 Live Migration on Server Core – Part I If you're working with Hyper-V, it's recommended that you use Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core for your root partition, as its stripped-down nature makes... 06 July 2010 12 min read
Jaap Wesselius Hyper-V R2 Live Migration Reliability is one of the great payoffs to virtualization, and failover clustering has got a whole lot better with Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. Now,... 10 February 2010 11 min read
Nirmal Sharma Microsoft Hyper-V Networking and Configuration – Part 1 In the first of a series of articles on Hyper-V Networking, Nirmal explains Hyper-V networking and VLAN tagging, and shows how to set up a... 11 December 2009 14 min read
Nirmal Sharma Increasing the Availability of Virtualised Applications and Services By using a virtualized clustering computing environment with failover, you can improve server availability without using as many physical computers. A group of independent computers... 22 October 2009 23 min read
Jaap Wesselius Installing Hyper-V and Beyond In his previous article "Hyper-V, an introduction" Jaap Wesselius explained about the Hypervisor, the parent partition, the child partition, and Integration Components. In this article... 28 July 2009 15 min read
Jaap Wesselius Windows Server Virtualisation: Hyper-V, an Introduction For SQL Server and Exchange Server, Windows Server Virtualization is going to be increasingly important as a way for the administrator to allocate hardware resources... 01 June 2009 11 min read
Desmond Lee Build Your Own Virtualized Test Lab Desmond explains the fundamentals of building a test lab for Windows servers and Enterprise applications from scratch using Hyper-V on a supported x64 machine. He... 05 January 2009 14 min read
Jaap Wesselius Virtual Exchange Servers Microsoft now supports running Exchange Server 2007 in server virtualization environments, not just on Hyper-V, but on any virtualizing solution that is validated in the... 20 November 2008 14 min read
