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Until recently, when it came to complex datacenter virtualization tasks, most enterprises have turned to VMware Inc. tools. Lately, though, many have questioned whether Hyper-V is a viable alternative ...

Provisioning virtual machine with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) is slightly different than leveraging the local tool, Hyper-V Manager. While both work, the smoother way to deploy VMs ...

Cloning a virtual machine while it is running is a very handy feature that I have personally used on numerous occasions, especially to test upgrade versions of a production virtual machine. Sure, ...

Hyper-V comes with its own manager, but System Center Virtual Machine Manager R2 may be what your VMs really need This week I’m at the Connections conference in Las Vegas, and the buzz is all about ...

Often, software products don't change much between the first and second beta releases. They'll be tweaked and tinkered with to make them more stable or more secure. Not so with Microsoft's Virtual ...

At this year's Microsoft Management Summit 2007, Microsoft announced the beta 2 release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and said the product should be released sometime around the ...

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 ...

(Editor’s note: This story initially misidentified the employer of James Bothe, a systems administrator at RackForce Networks Inc. The company’s name has now been corrected. Also, the cost of Virtual ...

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, ...

Here’s a cool resource for PowerShell newbies (and who these days isn’t at least dabbling with Microsoft’s young scripting language?): the Get-Scripting podcast. The podcast is up to Episode 6 in its ...