When it comes to Hyper-V and VMware storage, which is better: block- or file-based access? The rate of adoption of server virtualisation has accelerated over recent years, and virtual server workloads ...

We are about 50-50 here with physical and virtual servers. In another year or two it will all be virtualized. My current project is to virtualize the file servers. Installing a DPM agent inside the ...

One of my favorite Hyper-V features is its ability to copy a file directly from a host server to a virtual machine (VM) without having to leverage the network stack. This capability is useful in ...

We've looked at quite a bit so far -- scalability improvements, NUMA, VM monitoring and replication, to name a few -- in the first six parts of this series. Let's turn our attention to a hot topic and ...

A look at what's new in general and specifically for virtualization and containers in the next LTSC release, Windows Server 2019, due out in the second half of 2018. In case you haven't kept up with ...

Here are some inital thoughts at the first test build of the upgraded Microsoft hypervisor server shows improved migration, upgraded Hyper-V Manager and new VM versions. Microsoft last month delayed ...

Possibilities are innumerable when multiple server environments can be deployed without the need for additional hardware and can be centrally maintained. The Test Center found one entertaining way to ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. With its June 26 release of Hyper-V, Microsoft presented ...

If we were having a discussion based on cost alone and didn’t have to bring features and management tools into the discussion, Hyper-V would already be the leading virtualizaton product compared to ...