With the Technical Preview (TP) 5 of Windows Server 2016 recently released, I thought I'd take the opportunity to cover all the new goodness coming in Hyper-V. TP 5 is apparently feature complete; ...

There are a lot of features you expect today from a hypervisor; and I'm glad to see that the Hyper-V role coming in Windows Server 2016 will support nested virtualization. This is a feature that's ...

A few weeks back, I declared the virtualization era and hypervisor wars to be over. Well, not quite “over” so much as “moved over” — that is, pushed aside in favor of a new battle: the war of the ...

Microsoft is releasing today, November 19, its fourth Technical Preview of Windows Server 2016, the first of its test versions to include Hyper-V container support. Windows Server 2016 Technical ...

Microsoft's CPU Groups tool lets you group CPU resources, cap resource consumption, and bind individual VMs to the group. Here's how. In the first part of this series, I introduced you to the CPU ...

Microsoft Hyper-V Server is a slim version of Windows Server where you can host Hyper-V VMs. Imagine this as Hyper-V hosting Hyper-Vs. Microsoft is offering Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 for free ...

Windows Server 2016 doesn't launch until later this year, but the code is finished and there's one thing in the RTM that's caused a little confusion. The desktop interface in Windows Server is exactly ...

The previous version of Windows Server superseding Windows Server 2012. Windows Server 2016 added container support: Windows Server Container shares resources, while Hyper-V Container isolates ...

The recent release of Microsoft Windows Server 2016 TP5 offers a closer look at the likely capabilities and features coming to the final release of the server OS, which, among many new features, ...