While Hyper-V largely handles NUMA placement automatically, admins can still hurt VM performance by overallocating virtual CPUs past a single physical CPU's core count, making it important to size VMs ...

If the Hyper-V Virtual Machine is removed after reboot, ensure the host is updated. So, if you are on Windows 11/10 or Windows Server, make sure to check for updates. If the host machine is updated, ...

While importing a virtual machine on Hyper-V, if you encounter an error stating ‘Hyper-V encountered an error while loading the virtual machine configuration ...

When you talk with folks in an IT shop running virtualization in their environment, one of the common complaints heard is that ISVs don’t always “officially support” their own applications running ...

Thanks to my obsession with DIY projects and server experiments, I’ve tinkered with all sorts of virtualization platforms, container runtimes, and hypervisors over the years. These range from popular ...

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...

One of the lesser-known capabilities of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) is its ability to convert VMware virtual machines so that they can run on Microsoft Hyper-V. I will tell you ...

During this week’s Converging on Microsoftpodcastinterview with Mike Schutz, Director of Product Management for the Microsoft Windows Server Division, we discuss the relevant steps necessary to secure ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

How can problems with a Hyper-V VM cause disk errors in Windows (the host)? Event viewer shows all these: Errors during paging operations. Failed to flush data to the transaction log (Failure status: ...

Competition between VMware and Microsoft got a little tighter on Thursday with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, which includes a major update to Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software.