I'm putting together some specs for a new server and am finding it requires a lot of thought and review to get things "perfect" if there is such a goal... The budget is $14K CDN for new server ...

Microsoft's virtualization platform has matured into a solid, dependable workhorse. Here's a primer for getting the most out of it. There's a gradual shift in the business world away from the market ...

Hyper-V administrators can quickly resolve four common errors by identifying their root causes--from permissions and VM ...

With the Technical Preview (TP) 5 of Windows Server 2016 recently released, I thought I'd take the opportunity to cover all the new goodness coming in Hyper-V. TP 5 is apparently feature complete; ...

A lot of Hyper-V administrators I talk to are historically Windows Server administrators, and while many things translate well; not everything does. Over the years, I've learned a few things about ...

Windows Server 2016 running HyperV. FreeBSD 11.1 running as a guest. Automatic Stop Action is set to default, meaning ”Save the virtual machine state” and I am pretty sure I read this is a supported ...

In this post, we’ll show you how to enable and configure Hyper-V Remote Management for headless Hyper-V hosts (Windows Server Core or Microsoft Hyper-V Server) from a Windows workstation, all in a non ...

If you've been following my writings on ZDNet for the last several years, you've probably realized by now that I am something of a virtualization and server technology junkie. In my day job as a ...

Microsoft today released Windows Server 2019 Insider Preview build 17744. The news comes right on schedule, as these things seem to happen every Tuesday at 10am Pacific Time. The last one was a week ...

Like original offerings from market pioneer VMware and others, Microsoft's current server virtualisation product, Virtual Server 2005, is a hosted solution, designed to run as an application on top of ...

We then have to verify the connection. You need to run the command in PowerShell on your workstation and not the server. Test-NetConnection -ComputerName 192.168.21.30 -Port 5985 Make sure to replace ...