Hyper-V

Make your IT administration easier with Microsoft’s Windows Server 2012’s ability to pause and drain clusters.

Aidan Finn explains how Windows Server 2012 R2 makes it easier to export virtual machines with the ‘live exporting’ functionality.

Aidan Finn explains when you might need to create a NIC team inside of a virtual machine.

In part three of this article series on building a non-clustered Hyper-V host, Aidan Finn provides tips for deploying the host for production environments.

In part two of our series on deploying a non-clustered Hyper-V host, Aidan shows us how to enable the Hyper-V role.

Learn how to deploy a non-clustered Hyper-V host running Windows Server 2012 R2 as the management OS.

Our series on Hyper-V DHCP Guard and Router Guard concludes with how to enable those features in existing VMs and with System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

Aidan Finn explains how Hyper-V Router Guard and DHCP Guard can be used to prevent guest OS administrators from enabling unwanted network services.

Dealing with frozen virtual machines in Hyper-V? Learn how to get the GUID of a VM running on WS2012/WS2012 R2 Hyper-V in order to kill it.

Learn all about how Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V introduced improved network security with Extended Port Access Control Lists (ACLs).