Many of today’s cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing, edge computing and microservices, owe their start to the concept of the virtual machine—separating operating systems and software ...

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) started off as a solution you could use to manage all of your VMs across multiple hosts through a single pane. Over time, however, VMM has evolved into much ...

Virtualization can expose data and encryption keys to hackers. Microsoft's shielded virtual machines and Host Guardian Service locks them down. For all its benefits, the drive to virtualize everything ...

Organizing Hyper-V hosts into well-structured groups and using consistent naming conventions in System Center Virtual Machine Manager is key to maintaining scalable and manageable infrastructure.

How many virtual machines can you fit on a host server? That's a frequently-asked question when IT pros consider which hardware options to purchase for their virtual hosts. In this tip, I share things ...

Server consolidation is a high priority for many IT managers, and there are several ways to do it. One approach is to take a physical server and convert it — OS, applications and all — into a virtual ...

(1) See server virtualization. Contrast with virtual host. (2) A virtual machine environment from Microsoft for Windows servers. See Microsoft Virtual Server. (3) Multiple servers that appear as one ...

powerful. Not only does it allow you to host a website using the world’s most flexible web server, it also allows you to do so on your Windows host. But don’t think because you’re on a Windows host ...

Microsoft's 'Blue' wave of tools and technologies is more than just a user interface refresh. It's the next step on Microsoft's journey to becoming a devices and services company, and the first of ...

Windows users have several virtualization platforms at their disposal, allowing them to run simulated (or virtualized) systems within a single PC, each acting as a completely independent PC ...

Microsoft’s stripped-down Windows Server 2016 deployment option reduces the ops burden, but supports only a limited number of server roles Like every previous Windows Server release, Windows Server ...

While creating or starting a virtual machine through Hyper-V, if you get an error saying The server encountered an error while creating New Virtual Machine with an ...