VMware ESXi to Hyper-V Migration With MVMC: VMDK to VHDX End-to-End
You have a VM running on VMware ESXi. You want it on Hyper-V instead. Maybe the org is consolidating onto Microsoft hypervisor for licensing reasons. Maybe you’re building a hybrid…
Tag: Virtualization
Hyper-V: Convert a VHD to VHDX (Detach First, Then Edit Disk)
You have a Hyper-V VM with a legacy VHD-format disk. Maybe it migrated from an old Server 2008 R2 host, maybe someone created it manually before VHDX became the default…
Hyper-V: Two Paths to Add Storage to a VM (VHDX File vs Pass-Through)
You need to give a Hyper-V guest more storage. Two paths get you there: create a VHDX file on the host and attach it to the VM, or claim a…
Hyper-V Replica Unplanned Failover: The Emergency Button (Part 4 of 4)
The primary host is gone. Power outage, hardware failure, ransomware that took out the SAN, fire in the rack — doesn’t matter what; the workload is down and the primary…
Hyper-V Replica Planned Failover: Zero Data Loss Handover With Auto-Reverse
You set up Hyper-V Replica in Part 1 and proved it works via a quarterly drill in Part 2. Now the moment comes: you actually need to move the workload…
Hyper-V Replica Test Failover: A Safe DR Drill With No Production Impact
You stood up Hyper-V Replica in Part 1. Bytes are flowing from the primary host to the replica host every five minutes. The replica VM exists on HVHost02 in a…
Hyper-V Replica in a Domain: Kerberos Setup, Walked End-to-End
Hyper-V Replica is the built-in DR layer in every Hyper-V install. Configure it once and Hyper-V asynchronously copies a VM’s disks to a second standalone host every few minutes; if…
Hyper-V Replica in a Workgroup: Self-Signed Cert Setup End-to-End
Hyper-V Replica is the built-in disaster-recovery layer that ships with every Hyper-V install. It asynchronously copies a VM’s disks (and optionally point-in-time snapshots) to a second standalone Hyper-V host so…
Hyper-V Shared Nothing Live Migration: Move a Running VM Between Hosts Without a SAN
Two standalone Hyper-V hosts. No SAN, no Cluster Shared Volume, no shared anything — each host has its own local storage. A VM on the source host needs to end…
Hyper-V Storage Migration: Move a Live VM Between Disks With Zero Downtime
Disk fills up. Storage gets retired. A workload outgrows its tier. Whatever the trigger, sooner or later you need to move a Hyper-V VM’s files off one disk and onto…
Hyper-V Lab Networking: A NAT vSwitch With One Outbound IP
You’ve got a Hyper-V lab on your laptop or a spare server. You want the guest VMs to reach the internet for Windows updates, package installs, license activation, and the…
Manage Hyper-V VM Checkpoints
How Hyper-V checkpoints actually work (differencing-disk chain), when to use them (lab rollback, patch dry-run, demo reset, short-term oh-no insurance), why they aren't a backup, the Production vs Standard distinction (default Production - app-consistent via VSS - safe for most workloads except DC/SQL/Exchange replicas), the GUI flow for create / revert / apply / merge, the Edit Disk wizard for manual merge of orphaned chains, the PowerShell equivalents (Checkpoint-VM, Restore-VMSnapshot, Remove-VMSnapshot), and 7 common pitfalls (don't snapshot a DC, USN rollback, long-lived checkpoints, disk-space crunch, revert vs running VM).