Hyper-V vs Proxmox in 2026: What Sysadmins Must Know
Hyper-V vs Proxmox in 2026: a practical comparison for sysadmins covering cost, licensing changes, and which hypervisor fits your environment.
How to Migrate a Hyper-V VM to Proxmox (Step-by-Step Guide)
Step-by-step tutorial on migrating a Hyper-V virtual machine to Proxmox using qemu-img and VirtIO drivers.
Hyper-V Backup and Recovery: Strategies and Best Practices
Chapter 6 of the Hyper-V guide: full, incremental and differential backups, Windows Server Backup vs DPM and Veeam, scheduling, and restoring a VM.
Hyper-V Live Migration and Replica (Ch. 5)
Chapter 5 of the Hyper-V guide: set up Live Migration between hosts, enable Hyper-V Replica for disaster recovery and turn on nested virtualization.
Storage in Hyper-V - Managing Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs)
Chapter 4 of the Hyper-V guide: VHD vs VHDX, fixed, dynamic and differencing disks, creating and attaching disks, expanding them and extending the volume.
Hyper-V Networking: Virtual Switches Explained (Ch. 3)
Chapter 3 of the Hyper-V guide: External, Internal and Private virtual switches, attaching VMs, setting guest IPs, VLAN IDs and bandwidth limits.
Setting Up Your First Virtual Machine in Hyper-V
Chapter 2 of the Hyper-V guide: create your first VM with the wizard, pick Generation 1 or 2, assign memory and a VHDX, install the OS, take checkpoints.
What Is Hyper-V and Why Use It (Hyper-V Guide Ch. 1)
Chapter 1 of the Hyper-V guide: what Hyper-V is, which Windows Server and Windows 10/11 editions include it, system requirements and enabling the role.
Support Our Hyper-V Guide: Get Early Access
The Master Hyper-V guide is in Early Access on Ko-fi: walkthroughs, best practices and troubleshooting tips, free or pay what you want during Early Access.
Convert a Windows ISO to VHDX for Hyper-V (Automated)
Turn a Windows Server ISO into a ready VHDX template with Convert-WindowsImage, inject unattend.xml and enable NetFx3, all from one PowerShell script.
Automate an RDS Lab from ISO to Deployment with PowerShell
Build a full RDS lab on Hyper-V from a Windows Server ISO with my HomeLab PowerShell project: VHDX template, then DC, domain join and RDS from JSON.
Enable Hyper-V on Windows 11 Home (Works on Windows 10 Home)
Hyper-V is hidden on Windows Home. This batch script adds the Hyper-V packages with DISM, then you switch it on with Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature.
My New Home Lab Journey
I built a new home lab on three HP ProDesk 600 G4 Minis (i3-8100T, 32 GB, 2 TB NVMe) running Server 2019 Hyper-V, deployed via MDT, with 2.5 Gbit next.
Set Up VDI on Windows Server 2022 (RDS Part 8)
What Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is, how it differs from session-based RDS, and how to build a VDI pool on Hyper-V from a Windows 10/11 template VM.
Setting Up a Hyper-V Cluster on Windows Server Core
Build a Hyper-V failover cluster on Windows Server Core with PowerShell: Failover Clustering, Test-Cluster, New-Cluster, shared storage, failover test.
Find Your Hyper-V VM’s Host Name with PowerShell
One PowerShell command that reads the Hyper-V guest registry key to tell you which Hyper-V host a VM is running on, handy when you manage several hosts.
Server 2022 - Hyper-V - Install Windows 11
Create a Generation 2 VM on Server 2022 Hyper-V, enable the virtual TPM that Windows 11 requires and run through the Windows 11 installation.
Server 2022 - Hyper-V - Virtual Machine Templates
Build a sysprepped VM template in Hyper-V on Server 2022 and deploy VMs from it with the included PowerShell script: CPU, RAM, VLAN and disks.
Server 2022 - Hyper-V - Enable Deduplication
Enable Data Deduplication on a Server 2022 Hyper-V host and configure it to shrink the storage used by VM templates and VMs that share the same data.
Server 2022 - Installing Hyper-V Role
Install the Hyper-V role on Windows Server 2022 through Server Manager and PowerShell, then do the initial configuration before creating your first VM.