Here's how to use the Failover Cluster Manager to make virtual machines fault tolerant or to create new virtual machines. One of the biggest disadvantages to running Hyper-V on standalone ...

Here are some reasons why your Hyper-V virtual machines might fail to shut down and how you can troubleshoot this recurring issue. Occasionally, you may find that when you attempt to use the Hyper-V ...

Personally, I’m a staunch member of the Proxmox faction and wouldn’t trade it for anything else. But after falling down the ...

The recent announcement that Hyper-V supports CentOS Linux guest virtual machines makes Microsoft's offering even more attractive to organizations of all sizes. It may sound counterintuitive, but the ...

I’ve written many posts about my adventures in virtualized server building and management over the past couple of years. Mostly to document what I’ve learned and to see what others are doing. Things ...

In an interesting twist, Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 8 will feature the first-rate, enterprise-echelon Hyper-V(Opens in a new window) machine virtualization hypervisor. This will mean that ...

‘Virtual-machine-name’ failed to stop: The device is not ready for use. (0x800710DF). (Virtual Machine ID unique-numbers) If you click the Close button and try to ...

Sanbolic has adapted its clustered file system to support Microsoft’s upcoming hypervisor, allowing IT shops to move a virtual machine from one physical server to another without affecting users.

If you face the Mouse input not captured issue on Hyper-V virtual machine, this article could be handy for you. Here are some solutions you can follow when your mouse ...

In a move that caused more than a few eyes to bulge and jaws to drop, last July Microsoft announced it was contributing code to the Linux community with hopes of having it included in the Linux tree.