Although Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V introduced an overwhelming number of new features, Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V introduces even more. With Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft did a good job of ...

From what I understand, enabling the Hyper-V role in Server 2012 virtualizes the OS and is essentially the same as running it on top of Hyper-V 2012 Server. Also, Hyper-V doesn't passthru SMART data.

Preview editions of Hyper-V 2012 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 pick up where the strong initial releases left off Hyper-V 3.0 was perhaps the shiniest of the shining-star ...

There's no doubt Microsoft is serious about making Hyper-V a contender for enterprise virtualization and private cloud. The Windows Server 2012 release was full of new features and scalability ...

Here are some inital thoughts at the first test build of the upgraded Microsoft hypervisor server shows improved migration, upgraded Hyper-V Manager and new VM versions. Microsoft last month delayed ...

For production server environments, it’s recommended that you run the Server Core version of Windows Server 2012 which lacks a GUI. The purpose of that recommendation is that it reduces the resources ...

I have a server with a couple dual core Xeon 5130 processors in it (a total of 4 cores). Previously I had been running VMware ESXi 4.1 free version on it with a couple virtual machines, but I wanted ...

Click to Tweet: Unitrends announces 1st native #HyperV backup solution for #winserv 2012. Check out info & free download – http://bit.ly/OaHaUc. “Organizations of ...

I've been working a lot on Hyper-V recently, and I've been happy to find that there are plenty of good community resources on Hyper-V that can help people get started with it. One feature I've spent a ...