In this post, my goal is to provide the steps one must take in a typical non-domain environment to set up Hyper-V Server 2016 or 2019 host and remotely manage it via Hyper-V Manager from a Windows 10 PC. I will split this post into three sections; what to do…
Hyper-V does not expose Virtualization Extensions to Linux VMs (for nested virtualization) automatically. However, Microsoft provides a PowerShell script to run against the Linux VM in which you want to use nested virtualization. The PowerShell script runs a few basic Hyper-V PowerShell commands against the VM, which basically enable the…
This post addresses an issue I came across recently where I virtualized a Windows XP machine and placed it on a hypervisor running Hyper-V Server 2016. The problem is that Hyper-V 2016 does not provide “Integration Services” for Windows XP. In earlier versions of Hyper-V, you can find the Integration…
I feel there has been a lot of unnecessary confusion around Windows Server 2016 licensing. My goal with this post is to alleviate this confusion by showing you how simple it actually is. The Basics Windows Server 2016 licensing is licensed per-core. Because processors always have an even number of…
Here we’ll dive in to configuring a typical Hyper-V server from scratch scenario — a Dell R730xd Hyper-V SanDisk DAS Cache. We’ll be taking advantage of using SSDs and SanDisk DAS Cache, with some spinning rust for the slower high-capacity storage. The proven idea is that the SSDs will handle the bulk…
In this post, I will be going over Hyper-V backup and restore. We’ll back up and restore Hyper-V virtual machines using Windows Server Backup WSB and command line CLI, to and from iSCSI and a .VHDX located on a network drive. Windows Server Backup Hyper-V backup, in many circumstances, can…