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I have an older server with a few virtual machines under Hyper-V. I wanted to run them on my laptop using VMWare Workstation. While looking for an easy way to switch I found a free tool that allows you to easily convert. It is called StarWind V2V Converter. What it does is convert the virtual […]
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A while back I wrote about Veeam – a backup utility for VMWare and Hyper-V. The drawback is in this free version of Veeam, you can’t schedule backups. I have found an alternative. It is called Altaro Hyper-V Backup. The main limitation in the free version is you can only backup two VMs. Also, Altaro […]
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I got a question from Andrea this week: “Hi Steve, We have some VMs under HyperV that are used for training during the day and we would like to setup a vbscript that could be called from windows scheduler that could start them up in the morning, and shut them down at the end of […]
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I found a free tool for managing Hyper-V remotely. If you do any work with Hyper-V, you might want to take a look. It is made by 5Nine Software Once you have installed it, you can easily add your server to the interface: It is fast. Loads my list of VMs faster than the Hyper-V […]
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