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Creating High Availability Hyper-V Virtual Machines
Windows Server Hyper-V provides a solid platform for organizations looking to virtualize production workloads on a Windows hypervisor platform. It has certainly matured over the past few versions of the hypervisor and is getting more powerful from the standpoint of…
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Windows Server System Insights Predictive Analytics Installation and Features
With the release of Windows Admin Center (formerly Project Honolulu), we can see that Microsoft is really taking the new web based management platform and running with it. It is not hard to see (this has been rumored by many)…
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Windows Server 2019 Installing Roles and Features with Project Honolulu PowerShell
Update 4.13.2018 – Project Honolulu released officially as Windows Admin Center Recently, we looked at Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2019 and Project Honolulu. Project Honolulu is a new web based management platform that allows aggregating Windows Server administration into…
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Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2019 and Project Honolulu
Update 4.13.2018 – Project Honolulu released officially as Windows Admin Center With the release of the newest technical preview of Windows Server 2019, you can now go out and pull down the latest code available for the upcoming release of…
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1801 New Features and Installation
For those not familiar with System Center Virtual Machine Manager it is part of the System Center Suite and is the tool developed by Microsoft cover management of both private clouds and public clouds in Azure. So, we can say…
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Windows Server 2016 Security Features and Hardening
There is no doubt about it that Windows Server 2016 is Microsoft’s most powerful server operating system. If you have been waiting on reasons to upgrade server infrastructure to Server 2016, security may be among the top reasons why you…
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Installing Windows 10 Pro for Workstations
Recently, Microsoft released the Windows 10 Pro for Workstation version of Windows 10 to the fall lineup of Windows 10 editions. This is a rather interesting move for Microsoft. It provides an edition of Windows 10 that is especially geared…
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Use Snapshots in Production with Hyper-V Production Checkpoints
For most virtualization admins who have spent any time in the trenches with administering virtual environments, snapshots are just a bad thing for most use cases, especially production workloads. We have all most likely been in situations where snapshots caused…
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Backup Hyper-V clusters with Nakivo
Nakivo Backup & Replication provides a powerful means to backup multiple hypervisors including VMware, AWS instances, and also Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Especially cool with the Hyper-V support is the ability to protect Hyper-V Failover Cluster environments. This functionality was introduced…
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Hyper-V backups saved state vs child VM snapshots
When thinking about backing up Hyper-V workloads, we want to consider the mechanisms that can be used to perform the backup of the virtual machines. Hyper-V can use two means for backing up virtual machines – the “saved state method”…
