System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012

Adding a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Host into System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2

In the previous article, we have created Installation of SCVMM 2012 R2 and VMM Console in Windows 8.1 workstation and connect to SCVMM Server. In this article, we are going to add a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V host into System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2. As the best practice, you should perform this task from the Virtual Machine […]

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Configuring Storage Live Migration in Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V

Storage Live Migration is a process of moving a running virtual machine’s virtual storage from one disk to another with no loss of application downtime. In Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, you are not able to move the virtual machine’s storage while the virtual machine is running. Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 introduces a new feature known as Live Storage […]

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Configuring Hyper-V Replica in Windows Server 2012 R2

Hyper-V Replica is a new feature added to the Hyper-V Role in Windows Server 2012 Standard / Data Center and Hyper-V Server 2012. It uses an asynchronous data replication technology for organizations to implement an affordable Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) solution for virtualized workloads. This allows virtual machines running at a Primary Site to be efficiently replicated to […]

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Implementing Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Failover Clustering

A failover cluster is a group of two or more computers working together to increase the availability of a clustered services or applications. To make virtual machines highly available in Hyper-V environment, we must implement failover clustering on the Hyper-V host servers. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V comes with a number of new features and improvements for Hyper-V high availability and […]

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Installing Integration Services in Hyper-V Virtual Machine 2012

After the virtual machine guest operating system configuration is complete, we go about installation of Integration services. Hyper-V Integration Services is a suite of utilities that enhance the performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system. Integration services improve management of virtual machines by replacing generic operating system driver files for the mouse, keyboard, video, network and SCSI controller components. […]

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