Virtualization

How to Configure Windows Defender Antivirus on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Defender Antivirus on Windows Server 2025

How to Configure Windows Defender Antivirus on Windows Server 2025 Windows Defender Antivirus (WDA) is the built-in antimalware solution included with Windows Server 2025 and is active by default on Server with Desktop Experience installations. Unlike earlier versions of Windows Server where Defender was often treated as an afterthought, Windows Server 2025 ships with a […]

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How to Monitor Hyper-V with Performance Counters on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor Hyper-V with Performance Counters on Windows Server 2025

How to Monitor Hyper-V with Performance Counters on Windows Server 2025 Effective Hyper-V monitoring is the foundation of a stable virtualisation environment. Windows Server 2025 exposes a rich set of Hyper-V-specific performance counters through Performance Monitor (perfmon), PowerShell’s Get-Counter cmdlet, WMI/CIM, and the open-source Prometheus exporter windows_exporter. These counters give you deep visibility into hypervisor […]

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How to Deploy Containerised Applications to Kubernetes on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Deploy Containerised Applications to Kubernetes on Windows Server 2025

How to Deploy Containerised Applications to Kubernetes on Windows Server 2025 Kubernetes supports Windows worker nodes, making it possible to run Windows containers — including ASP.NET Framework and ASP.NET Core applications — alongside Linux workloads in the same cluster. Windows Server 2025 is compatible with Kubernetes 1.29 and later, and Microsoft’s AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) […]

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How to Use VHDX Disks with Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use VHDX Disks with Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025

How to Use VHDX Disks with Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025 The VHDX format is the modern virtual hard disk standard for Hyper-V, replacing the older VHD format that was limited to 2 TB and lacked resilience features. VHDX disks support up to 64 TB of capacity, use 4 KB sector alignment for optimal performance […]

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How to Configure GPU Passthrough in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure GPU Passthrough in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025

How to Configure GPU Passthrough in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025 Windows Server 2025 brings significant improvements to GPU virtualisation in Hyper-V. Where earlier releases relied exclusively on Discrete Device Assignment (DDA) to expose a physical GPU to a virtual machine, Windows Server 2025 introduces first-class support for GPU Partitioning (GPU-P), allowing a single physical […]

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How to Configure Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows Server 2025

How to Configure Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows Server 2025 Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) brings a full Linux kernel and user-space environment directly to Windows, enabling developers and administrators to run Linux tools, shell scripts, and even containerised workloads without a separate virtual machine. On Windows Server 2025, WSL is supported on […]

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How to Set Up Nano Server on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Nano Server on Windows Server 2025

How to Set Up Nano Server on Windows Server 2025 Nano Server has undergone a significant transformation since its debut in Windows Server 2016. In Windows Server 2025, Nano Server is no longer available as a deployable virtual machine operating system or a physical host installation option. Instead, Microsoft has repositioned Nano Server exclusively as […]

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How to Manage Containers with Windows Admin Center on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Manage Containers with Windows Admin Center on Windows Server 2025

How to Manage Containers with Windows Admin Center on Windows Server 2025 Windows Admin Center (WAC) is Microsoft’s browser-based server management platform, and its Container extension brings a visual, point-and-click interface to Docker container management on Windows Server 2025. For administrators who are comfortable managing Windows infrastructure through a GUI but are earlier in their […]

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How to Export and Import Hyper-V Virtual Machines on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Export and Import Hyper-V Virtual Machines on Windows Server 2025

How to Export and Import Hyper-V Virtual Machines on Windows Server 2025 Exporting and importing Hyper-V virtual machines is one of the most versatile techniques in a Windows Server administrator’s toolkit. Whether you need to migrate a VM between hosts that lack shared storage, create a deployable VM template for rapid provisioning, clone an existing […]

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How to Set Up a Hyper-V Cluster on Windows Server 2025 — step-by-step Windows Server 2025 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Hyper-V Cluster on Windows Server 2025

How to Set Up a Hyper-V Cluster on Windows Server 2025 A Hyper-V cluster — built on Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) — provides the foundation for high-availability virtualisation. When a host node fails, the virtual machines running on it automatically restart on surviving nodes, often within a minute or two, without any manual intervention. […]

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