How to Install Hyper-V on Windows Server 2019
The Windows Server 2019 Install Procedure The following steps walk through Windows Server 2019 Installation from media. Aside from the text fields and the license prompt in step 3, installing …
How to Deploy OVA / OVF Template Using VMware vSphere Desktop Client
Deploy OVF Template Note: The current version of vCenter in the example below is version 5.5. To deploy an OVF template, open the vSphere Desktop Client. On the top-left, click File and select Deploy OVF …
VMWare VM Server OS & NIC Tuning Optimizations
VMWare VM Server Tuning – Windows OS & VMXNet3 Network Card Optimizations In Windows, Open a command prompt window with elevated permissions and execute the following commands displayed in RED. …
Install Windows Nano Server on VMware ESXi
In my lab, I have VMware ESXi hosts and I just want to deploy the Nano Server as a Virtual Machine so that I can play around with it, which …
How to deploy Windows Nano Server on vSphere
Windows Nano Server is a super lightweight version of Windows Server that was “built for the Cloud”. When I first heard of it I immediately became curious, because it resembles …
Fixing Windows 2012R2 Hyper-V Role Failing At 99 Percent
installing the Hyper-V Role is straightforward on a new system, I have seen couple of scenarios where the Hyper-V role will fail on installation. Scenario conditions are outlined below: Fresh …
How to reset the local admin password of a Hyper-V VM
Do you ever get that sinking feeling, when you’ve forgotten the root password to your test lab? Again? I hate it too! So I decided to figure out a way …
Moving your VM Storage
Use the fantastic tools built-in to Hyper-V 2012 to make it easy to migrate your VMs onto new storage or over to a new host. Never mess with copying .vhdx …
Cloning VMs in Hyper-V
It’s a common enough scenario: build one template machine and then mirror that to make a testlab, so you’d think this would be a built-in feature of Hyper-V, but its …
How to install a Guest OS in VirtualBox
A tutorial on how to install an Operating System in VirtualBox. This is my first article on VirtualBox and I’ll describe the steps involved in creating a Virtual Machine, mounting …