The VM Gen ID is only supported when running Hyper-V 2012 w/ DCs running Server 2012. Snapshots, cloning, and online backup are fully supported in this configuration.

Note to microsoft.<BR><BR>Hyper-V Server R2 cluster nodes must have Admin rights to all other nodes. bastid.<BR><BR>Also, ensure that remote DCOM membership is ALSO granted to all other nodes.

Microsoft was nice enough to provide Hyper-V backup capability for individual Hyper-V hosts that worked great and was free with the OS. Once you move to a Hyper-V cluster however, the free ride is ...

Networking Networking on Hyper-V hosts is used for many different types of traffic: there's the intra-cluster communication (heartbeat), Live Migration (VMs moving from one host to the other while ...

In the process of writing this review, I deployed a three-node cluster of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V servers, then added a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V node.

Users of Hyper-V R2 -- either the standalone server or the one rolled into Windows Server 2008 R2 -- can vary the number of VMs per node for a maximum of 16 nodes per cluster.

A Hyper-V cluster is established by installing the Failover Cluster Role to each server node in the group. You then use the Failover Cluster Management tool to create your cluster and join server ...

Here are some inital thoughts at the first test build of the upgraded Microsoft hypervisor server shows improved migration, upgraded Hyper-V Manager and new VM versions.

The only alternative is to use the Cluster Manager and Hyper-V Manager tools included in the full Windows Server 2008 R2 product or download equivalent standalone tools for use with Windows 7.

Users of Hyper-V R2 -- either the standalone server or the one rolled into Windows Server 2008 R2 -- can vary the number of VMs per node for a maximum of 16 nodes per cluster. Microsoft supplies a ...