Posted by Unitrends
This post is continuing on from my last blog about protecting your Hyper-V host server. I certainly share the school of thought that creating single-purpose servers to host your Hyper-V guests is unde...Read More
Posted by Unitrends
There are numerous campaigns circulating the internet these days on the merits and best practices dealing with data protection and virtualized environments. While there are tons of products and tools ...Read More
Posted by Unitrends
In Windows Server 2012 (and R2), Microsoft released the Scale Out File Server (SOFS) feature. SOFS provides highly available file-based storage for applications and general use, and they are particula...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
In the last post in this series (way back in 2014!) we discussed whether Hyper-V replica should be used as an alternative to backup? The answer was that there were a number of drawbacks to using Hyper...Read More
Posted by Unitrends
If you have been running Hyper-V hosts with a variety of guest VM operating systems, you probably have experienced the hassle of installing and updating the Integration Services for your guests. Simpl...Read More
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Windows Hyper-V technology has included the ability to create checkpoints for VMs since Hyper-V 2012 R2. These checkpoints use saved state technology to create a point-in-time that a VM may be reverte...Read More
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In my last post, we reviewed installing the Chocolatey package management framework, so now let’s use choco to install a package. You can use choco to search for a keyword or string in its repositor...Read More
Posted by Unitrends
I mentioned in a prior post that I would write about the Chocolatey package manager and the neat software management it provides for Windows, so here we go. Chocolatey was the initial framework that M...Read More
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I’ve been researching the new features of PowerShell 5.0, and I love the OneGet module. It provides a set of cmdlets which allow you to quickly and easily manage the applications installed on your s...Read More
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Microsoft preaches productivity with their announcement and preview of the new Windows 10 client, which is available for download if you are willing to sign up for their Insider program. With this bet...Read More