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Storage Quality of Service for Hyper-V

Starting in Windows Server® 2012 R2, Hyper-V includes the ability to set certain quality-of-service (QoS) parameters for storage on the virtual machines. For more information about configuring storage QoS for Hyper-V, see Configure Storage Quality of Service.

Storage QoS provides storage performance isolation in a multitenant environment and mechanisms to notify you when the storage […]

Hyper-V Automatic Virtual Machine Activation 2012

Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA) acts as a proof-of-purchase mechanism, helping to ensure that Windows products are used in accordance with the Product Use Rights and Microsoft Software License Terms. AVMA lets you install virtual machines on a properly activated Windows server without having to manage product keys for each individual virtual machine, even in […]

New in Hyper-V for Windows Server 2012 R2

What’s New in Hyper-V for Windows Server 2012 R2

Applies To: Windows Server 2012 R2

This topic explains the new and changed functionality of the Hyper-V role on Windows Server 2012 R2. For information about Hyper-V on Windows Server® 2016 Technical Preview, see What’s new in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview.

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Use local resources on Hyper-V virtual machine with VMConnect

 

When you use Virtual Machine Connection (VMConnect), generation 2 virtual machines that run a Windows operating system can access a computer’s local resources, like a removable USB flash drive. To make this happen, turn on enhanced session mode on the Hyper-V host, use VMConnect to connect to the virtual machine, and before you connect, […]

virtual hard disk: Hyper-v

required for resizing a virtual hard disk: Hyper-v

• A server capable of running Hyper-V. The server must have processor support for hardware virtualization. The Hyper-V role must be installed.

• A user account that is a member of the local Hyper-V Administrators group or the Administrators group. The following functionality is required for resizing […]

HYPER-V 2012 R2

HYPER-V 2012 R2

With the release of Windows 2012R2 and with it Hyper-V 2012R2 many of you are probably wondering how to migrate your existing environments to 2012R2. For the first time Microsoft has issued that migration (from 2012) can be achieved with zero downtime. Now while this is possible there are certain requirements […]

WHAT IS STORAGE SPACES DIRECT IN WINDOWS 2016?

Windows 2016 will continue to focus on Software Defined Storage. In Windows 2012 Storage spaces was introduced as a tool that would allow pooling together disk resources to create a large and redundant pool of disk space (Similar to Raid but without certain limitations-Such as all disks must be of the same size). Storage spaces […]

NEW DE-DUPE FEATURES COMING TO WINDOWS 2016

In its current beta Windows 2016 offers new Dew-Dupe features and rumors say that more are to come.

What we currently know is the following:

1. Volume size of up to 64 TB will be supported.

In Windows 2016 the recommended limit was 10 TB mainly due to processing rates. The new De-Dupe has a […]