Often, software products don't change much between the first and second beta releases. They’ll be tweaked and tinkered with to make them more stable or more secure. Not so with Microsoft's Virtual ...

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, ...

Until recently, when it came to complex datacenter virtualization tasks, most enterprises have turned to VMware Inc. tools. Lately, though, many have questioned whether Hyper-V is a viable alternative ...

Provisioning virtual machine with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) is slightly different than leveraging the local tool, Hyper-V Manager. While both work, the smoother way to deploy VMs ...

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 ...

Hyper-V comes with its own manager, but System Center Virtual Machine Manager R2 may be what your VMs really need This week I’m at the Connections conference in Las Vegas, and the buzz is all about ...

System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager shines for Windows Server 2016, but does little for prior versions of Hyper-V As you read through the list of new features in System Center 2016 Virtual ...

(Editor’s note: This story initially misidentified the employer of James Bothe, a systems administrator at RackForce Networks Inc. The company’s name has now been corrected. Also, the cost of Virtual ...

The default setting for Hyper-V automatically saves the state of virtual machines when the host is shut down or restarted. This means that if a virtual machine was running before the shutdown or ...

Often, software products don't change much between the first and second beta releases. They'll be tweaked and tinkered with to make them more stable or more secure. Not so with Microsoft's Virtual ...