I'm putting together some specs for a new server and am finding it requires a lot of thought and review to get things "perfect" if there is such a goal... The budget is $14K CDN for new server ...

Hyper-V administrators can quickly resolve four common errors by identifying their root causes--from permissions and VM ...

Windows Server 2016 running HyperV. FreeBSD 11.1 running as a guest. Automatic Stop Action is set to default, meaning ”Save the virtual machine state” and I am pretty sure I read this is a supported ...

Proxmox is hailed by many as the king of virtualization platforms, though there are just as many operating systems you can ...

Microsoft's virtualization platform has matured into a solid, dependable workhorse. Here's a primer for getting the most out of it. There's a gradual shift in the business world away from the market ...

A lot of Hyper-V administrators I talk to are historically Windows Server administrators, and while many things translate well; not everything does. Over the years, I've learned a few things about ...

The Hyper-V feature in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Release 2 offers a reliable and scalable platform for virtualizing server workloads in the enterprise and the data center. How well your Hyper-V ...

Microsoft's first service pack for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, the company's standalone server virtualization solution, includes the same two features highlighted with Service Pack 1 for Windows Server ...

In this post, we’ll show you how to enable and configure Hyper-V Remote Management for headless Hyper-V hosts (Windows Server Core or Microsoft Hyper-V Server) from a Windows workstation, all in a non ...

When it comes to Hyper-V and VMware storage, which is better: block- or file-based access? The rate of adoption of server virtualisation has accelerated over recent years, and virtual server workloads ...

If you've been following my writings on ZDNet for the last several years, you've probably realized by now that I am something of a virtualization and server technology junkie. In my day job as a ...

Like original offerings from market pioneer VMware and others, Microsoft's current server virtualisation product, Virtual Server 2005, is a hosted solution, designed to run as an application on top of ...