A new PowerShell-based Hyper-V health tool goes beyond replication status to estimate whether a VM is actually ready for a successful failover.

DIY Hyper-V network monitoring uses PowerShell to track host, VM and replication health. Color-coded Hyper-V health reports highlight replication errors, ping failures, disk space and memory usage.

Microsoft will remove PowerShell 2.0 from Windows starting in August, eight years after announcing its deprecation and keeping it around as an optional feature. The 14-year-old command processor ...

Microsoft has released an emergency update to address a known issue causing some Hyper-V virtual machines with Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server to freeze or restart unexpectedly. These ...

The default setting for Hyper-V automatically saves the state of virtual machines when the host is shut down or restarted. This means that if a virtual machine was running before the shutdown or ...

You can create Hyper-V VMs in Windows 11 using a built-in Windows app or a new developer-oriented tool. Both come with gotchas. Here’s how it all works. Though it may seem that virtual machines, a.k.a ...

If you are dealing with various virtual machines, it is essential to give all of them a correct name. But if you have not done that when creating the machine, you can rename them as well. However, do ...

Microsoft issued patches for 60 unique CVEs in its Patch Tuesday security update for March, only two of which are rated as "critical" and needing priority attention. Both affect the Windows Hyper-V ...

Viewing and changing your BIOS settings can be a painful experience; you need to reboot your system, hit the right key combinations at the right time to enter the BIOS, navigate around somewhat ...

VMware not compatible with Hyper-V error can occur when the Hyper-V role is enabled as a secondary virtual machine creator. VMware needs a 4GB RAM or more because ...