Category Archive: Hyper-V

Migrate Hyper-V 2012R2 VMs To Nutanix AHV

The following blog post will cover the steps taken when I migrated a Hyper-V 2012 R2 VM running Windows Server 2008, called VM01 below, to Nutanix AHV version 20170830.115 and Nutanix AOS version 5.6. Yeah I know that Windows 2008 R2 is not the most modern OS but that was the constraint in this case …

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NAKIVO v7 beta available

Since i know quite a few of my blog readers are using or looking at Nakivo as their backup software i just wanted to let you know that Nakivo version 7 beta program has started and anyone completing the program will receive an Amazon gift card. Below is a list of new features included in V7  Hyper-V …

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Hypervisor resource utilization question

When you determine the amount of resources you need for your virtualised environment you need to include several things such as: Hypervisor CPU requirements Hypervisor RAM requirements Hypervisor disk requirements Hypervisor CPU and or RAM requirement per running VM VM CPU requirements VM RAM requirements On top of this some hypervisors allows for resource oversubscription …

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