Before creating and configuring a virtual switch in your computer, your computer must have the Hyper-V program installed on the computer and have administrative rights. There are three types of ...

Switch Embedded Teaming (SET) is a feature introduced in Windows Server 2016 as an alternative to NIC teaming. It allows up to eight identical physical network adapters to be combined into a Hyper-V ...

In part one, we covered the extensible switch in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012; in part two we looked at network virtualization. We also looked at System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 and ...

A new IT buzzword (that is, hot on the heels of the now fairly worn "cloud") is software-defined networking. Driven by the need for data center networks to be more agile and policy driven than ...

Q: A company's administrator needs to configure a Hyper-V Extensible Switch using Windows Server 2012 to allow for monitoring of all network traffic. Which of the following should the administrator ...

Hyper-V is a technology that enables virtualized computer systems to run on top of a physical host. These virtualized systems can be used and managed just as if they were physical computer systems, ...

Virtualization has swept through the data center in recent years, enabling IT transformation and serving as the secret sauce behind cloud computing. Now it’s time to examine what’s next for ...

One of the most powerful tools in Windows 10 is its built-in virtualization platform, Hyper-V. Using Hyper-V, you can create a virtual machine and use it for evaluating software and services without ...

Virtualization technology is invaluable in modern IT infrastructure. It’s also essential to create virtual machines or a ...

Brien answers some common questions related to Hyper-V's SET capability, from how to configure virtual machines to use SET to determining your load balancing algorithm. In Part 1 of this series, I ...