Hyper-V

Hyper-V PowerShell Virtualization Windows Server 2016
Hyper-V: Configuring Automatic Startup and Boot Order of VMs
March 15, 2022
In Hyper-V, you can configure automatic startup and shutdown options for your virtual machines when you boot or restart your host OS. In this article, we’ll show how to configure…
Hyper-V PowerShell Virtualization Windows 10 Windows Server 2016
Hyper-V: Enabling Routing Between Internal Networks (Subnets)
August 2, 2021
My task is to create multiple internal IP subnets and configure routing between them on my standalone Hyper-V stand. By default, Hyper-V doesn’t route traffic between networks on virtual switches.…
Hyper-V PowerShell Virtualization Windows Server 2019
Import, Export and Clone Virtual Machines in Hyper-V
January 19, 2022
Unlike VMWare, Hyper-V has not got a built-in feature to clone virtual machines (cloning is available only in Virtual Machine Manager). To create a full copy of an existing VM,…
Hyper-V Virtualization Windows 10 Windows Server 2016
USB Device Passthrough (Redirect) to Hyper-V Virtual Machine
May 10, 2023
One of the significant disadvantages of Hyper-V over other hypervisors (for example, VMWare ESXi or Proxmox) is the lack of a feature of redirecting USB devices from the host to…
Hyper-V PowerShell Windows 10 Windows Server 2016
How to Extend or Shrink Virtual Hard Disks on Hyper-V?
January 19, 2022
Dynamic resizing of virtual machine hard disks is available starting with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2. Online VHDX Resize feature allows you to increase or shrink the size of…
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Selecting the Number of vCPUs and Cores for a Virtual Machine
June 19, 2023
When creating virtual machines in different hypervisors (VMWare, KVM, Hyper-V, etc.), you may see that sometimes a virtual machine may not see all virtual processor sockets (vCPU) assigned to it.…
Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2016
How to Backup Hyper-V Virtual Machines?
May 10, 2023
Although the Hyper-V environment provides quite a lot of technologies of high availability and fault tolerance for running virtual machines (such as failover clusters, Live Migration, replication, etc.), an administrator…
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Windows Server Licensing for Virtual Environments
May 10, 2023
In this article, we’ll look on licensing features of the Windows Server 2019, 2016 and 2012 R2 operating systems from the point of view of new Microsoft licensing model. Also,…