virtual machines

Aidan Finn explains how Microsoft is positioning Azure towards small and medium enterprises as a supplement to on-premise IT resources.

Russell Smith shares a helpful PowerShell script to provision domain controllers in Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft Azure’s come a long way. In part 1 of a new series, learn more about Azure’s possibilities with virtual machines and Remote Desktop Protocol.

In this post, learn to use the virtual processor resource control settings to configure Hyper-V virtual machine reservations, limits, and weights.

Want to feel clear-headed about the cloud? Learn more as Matt Hester discusses cloud services such as Windows Azure Iaas and how it can work for you.

VMware has recently replaced their entire Virtual Infrastructure virtualization product suite with vSphere 4. Read on to find out why all IT Admins should be considering a vSphere 4 deployment in their future.

One of the things that makes server virtualization so enticing is virtual machine portability. If a host server starts to become overloaded, or you need to upgrade to newer hardware, you can move virtual machines to another host server via the Import and Export function. In this article, Brien Posey explains the import/export process and how to avoid some common pitfalls of moving your virtual machines.

One of the tricky things about configuring Hyper-V is that you can have more guest operating systems than you have CPU cores. In this article, Brien Posey talks about finding the right balance between cores and guest operating systems.

Rebooting a host server containing virtual machines can be a big job, because the virtual machines also have to be rebooted. Thankfully, Brien Posey shows you how to minimize the amount of work involved in these types of reboots by setting some automatic startup options.