techtarget

Installing and managing Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 Server Core

This chapter excerpt on how to Implement and Utilize Hyper-V (download PDF) is taken from the book Windows Server 2008 How-To.This book offers information on every essential element to Windows Server ...
Ars Technica

Using Hyper-V Server for things other than Hyper-V

For the hell of it, I decided to install Hyper-V Server on a system, uninstall Hyper-V, and then install VMWare Server 2.0 It was all accomplished with no real gotchas but lead me to a licensing ...
Computerworld

Install GUI apps on Windows Hyper-V Server and Windows Server Core

For production server environments, it’s recommended that you run the Server Core version of Windows Server 2012 which lacks a GUI. The purpose of that recommendation is that it reduces the resources ...
Redmond

Provisioning Outdated OSes with Hyper-V 2016 Integration Services

Managing Integration Services used to be a pain until Microsoft began including it in all Windows OSes, starting with Windows Server 2016. But administrators of older platforms don't need to be left ...
Ars Technica

Server 2008 (Hyper-V): Should I install full host operating system? Disadvantages?

I'm looking to setup Windows Server 2008 R2 for a very small home network and security isn't a big concern. However, I'm very interested in obtaining the best performance possible. Anyways, I'm going ...
Redmond

Installing the Hyper-V Module for PowerShell

If you're getting error messages while trying to manage a remote Hyper-V host from a Windows 10 desktop, here's one possible reason -- and a solution. I recently ...