Hyper-V, Microsoft’s built-in virtualization solution, is an invaluable tool for developers, IT professionals, and tech enthusiasts. With the rollout of Windows 11 Pro, many users are keen to get started with Hyper-V. If you’re one of them, you’ve come to the right place. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps to enable the Hyper-V role on… Read More »
Virtualization has always been an efficient way to test and run different operating systems without dedicating an entire physical machine to the task. Hyper-V, Microsoft’s virtualization platform, is a fantastic tool for this. If you’re interested in testing Windows 11 without disturbing your main OS, then installing it on a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) is a good option.… Read More »
A Docker container is a lightweight, standalone, and executable package that includes everything needed to run a piece of software, including the code, a runtime, system tools, libraries, and settings. Containers are isolated from each other and from the host system, but they share the host system’s kernel.
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A function to create a new Hyper-V virtual machine using WMI, with the ability to create the VM on a remote host. Also allows for specifiying the target location.
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During the installation of Veeam Backup and Replication (VBR), you may run into a puzzling error, “Failed to invoke PowerShell query SCVMM components are not installed.” Luckily, an easy fix.
After performing a V2V, P2V or a clone operation in which the VHD/VHDX file is copied to a new VM, a new NIC is installed in the virtual machine. This is evidenced by the need to once again set the IP configuration of the NIC.
In a virtualized environment, we have the ability to create point-in-time snapshots, or checkpoints in Microsoft parlance, of virtual machines. This gives the ability to immediately roll back any changes after the checkpoint operation was performed. This is especially useful when debugging an application, or performing migrations and upgrades to applications.