Here are some inital thoughts at the first test build of the upgraded Microsoft hypervisor server shows improved migration, upgraded Hyper-V Manager and new VM versions. Microsoft last month delayed ...

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; ...

Although Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V introduced an overwhelming number of new features, Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V introduces even more. With Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft did a good job of ...

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 brings its bare-metal hypervisor platform, Hyper-V Server 2008, to market and makes it a freely downloadable virtualization product Last week, Microsoft announced that it had shipped its ...

There are a lot of features you expect today from a hypervisor; and I'm glad to see that the Hyper-V role coming in Windows Server 2016 will support nested virtualization. This is a feature that's ...

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 ...

In Windows Server 2008, Microsoft included “Live Migration” which basically allowed organizations to move a HyperV guest session from one virtual host server to another, typically for fault tolerance ...

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 ...