Category: Hyper-V Setup

How to Increase Disk Size in Hyper-V: The Ultimate Approach

Just as with physical servers, virtual machines (VM) require a large storage capacity to function properly. If your VM starts running low on disk space, the solution is to increase your computer’s s ...

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How to Install Hyper-V Core: Step-By-Step Guide

What’s involved in building a Hyper-V virtual environment? First and foremost, you need a reliable and efficient Hyper-V host on which your guest VMs will run. In today’s blog post, we are going t ...

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Hyper-V Server Core vs GUI Installation: How They Compare

Starting with Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V has been available as a Windows Server role and as a standalone Hyper-V Server. There are essentially three Hyper-V installation options to choose from: GUI ...

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Using VM Templates to Clone Hyper-V VMs

One major advantage of hardware virtualization is scalability: you can easily add virtual disks to your VMs, expand those virtual disks, expand the capacity of your hardware storage, and add more CPU ...

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Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 vs. Hyper-V Role

Since 2008, Microsoft has provided two deployment options for the Hyper-V hypervisor – a standalone installation of Hyper-V Server and a Hyper-V role that can be added onto an existing Windows Serve ...

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How to Install Hyper-V: A Step-By-Step Guide

Microsoft introduced their proprietary virtualization platform, Hyper-V, as a part of Windows Server 2008. Since its first release, Hyper-V has been available on all subsequent versions of Windows Ser ...

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How to Create Hyper-V Virtual Machine: Complete Walkthrough

The goal of most organizations is to grow and expand over time. While meeting this goal, an organization also often finds it more difficult to properly and efficiently manage all aspects of its infras ...

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Windows Server 2016 Licensing

With Windows Server 2016, Microsoft has moved to a per-core licensing model instead of socket-based licensing. This includes the following details: All physical cores in the server must be licensed Se ...

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Hyper-V 2016 Editions and System Requirements

Microsoft’s Hyper-V has made huge strides towards becoming a market leader. The latest version, Hyper-V 2016, is the most fully featured and capable product offering in the virtualization arena from ...

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