Hyper-V

In this retrospective, Aidan Finn reviews and grades his Hyper-V predictions for 2014. Find out which predictions turned out to be true this year.

Aidan Finn gives us his opinion of Microsoft’s approach to hyper-convergence, as was shared at Microsoft TechEd Europe 2014 in October.

Aidan Finn gives an overview of Microsoft’s Cloud Platform System, which is the company’s cloud-in-a-rack solution built on Dell hardware.

Aidan Finn serves us a method for creating virtual machines on Hyper-V that are similar to those that you can run in Microsoft Azure.

Jeff Hicks provides a helpful PowerShell function that lets you export or backup the configuration for select virtual machines on your Hyper-V server.

The new release of the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) 3.0 now includes the ability to perform physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversions from vSphere to Hyper-V.

Aidan Finn shows how to leverage Windows Server Failover Clustering priority to manipulate and order failover of highly available Hyper-V virtual machines.

Aidan Finn shows us how to measure the usage of host resources by virtual machines by using resource metering in Hyper-V.

Aidan Finn shows us how to boot a Hyper-V virtual machine off of a network by using the preboot execution environment (PXE).

Aidan Finn shows how to use the Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Enhanced Session mode to get increased performance for virtual machine connections.