Here's how to use the Failover Cluster Manager to make virtual machines fault tolerant or to create new virtual machines. One of the biggest disadvantages to running Hyper-V on standalone ...

You can now close Hyper-V Manager. Rename a Hyper-V virtual machine using PowerShell For those who wish to rename a Hyper-V virtual machine via the command line or through scripts, you can use ...

If you are dealing with various virtual machines, it is essential to give all of them a correct name. But if you have not done that when creating the machine, you can rename them as well. However, do ...

In the Windows 10 era, new feature updates arrive every six months. Each one comes with a long list of new features as well as the risk that the upgrade will result in crashes, hangs, or other ...

With the massive sizes of Hyper-V VMs, it might be a good idea to put a hard cap on how large they can grow to. When you create a new virtual machine using the Hyper-V Manager, the virtual hard disk ...

Before creating and configuring a virtual switch in your computer, your computer must have the Hyper-V program installed on the computer and have administrative rights. There are three types of ...

Create a Client Hyper-V Virtual Machine for Windows XP Your email has been sent In a previous article, Get started with Windows 8 Client Hyper-V the right way, I reminded you that Microsoft is ending ...

Canonical has created an optimized desktop image of the Ubuntu 19.04 Linux distribution that is now included as an available virtual machine in the Hyper-V quick create gallery. Hyper-V Manager ...

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...

How a Hyper-V VM boots up will dictate a lot, especially if optical media are interchanged. IT pro Rick Vanover shows a few ways to manage boot order for Hyper-V virtual machines in this post. Hyper-V ...

Cloning a virtual machine while it is running is a very handy feature that I have personally used on numerous occasions, especially to test upgrade versions of a production virtual machine. Sure, ...