VM

The ability to easily restore critical data and applications always comes down to the level of priority organizations give to their backup and recovery architectures. The low-hanging fruit from a datacenter perspective is protecting virtual machines.

Aidan summarizes what's been going on in Azure IaaS in August, and I'll also discuss a few features and services that you might have missed or forgotten about.

Aidan Finn shows you how you can quickly deploy an Azure virtual machine for evaluation purposes.

This guide will show you how to deploy an Azure virtual machine as a domain controller (DC).

In today's Ask the Admin, I'll show you how to create an ARM template in Visual Studio for deploying Azure virtual machines (VMs). Having used VS to deploy resources in Azure, this is the way I now recommend you work with Azure templates.

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.

In this overview, discover the roles and types of storage controllers included in generations 1 and 2 Hyper-V VMs, and best practices to help get started.

Download the free Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 2.0, and learn what it can do for you and your business!

Considering a Hyper-V VM? Learn more about configuring a virtual machine on Hyper-V to run an operating system or service.

Cut through the clutter! Build a SharePoint 2013 development environment using Hyper-V in part 1 of a new 3 part series.

Discover the many considerations when configuring storage for a Hyper-V virtual machine.

Go VM or go home! Learn about the new features of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, how to manage VMs, and from which of its new features you can most benefit.

Can't get enough virtualization? Learn how to boot a Hyper-V VM to a USB drive in this tutorial by IT pro Peter de Tender.