Virtualization

How to Set Up Hyper-V Resource Metering on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Hyper-V Resource Metering on Windows Server 2019

How to Set Up Hyper-V Resource Metering on Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V Resource Metering is a feature in Windows Server 2019 that allows administrators to track and measure the resource consumption of virtual machines. This capability is essential for billing in hosted environments, capacity planning, and chargeback reporting. Resource metering collects data on CPU usage, […]

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How to Configure Hyper-V Checkpoints on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Hyper-V Checkpoints on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Hyper-V Checkpoints on Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V Checkpoints (formerly called Snapshots) capture the state of a running virtual machine at a specific point in time, allowing you to revert the VM to that state if needed. This is invaluable before applying updates, making configuration changes, testing software installations, or performing any risky operation. […]

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How to Set Up Hyper-V Storage Migration on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Hyper-V Storage Migration on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Hyper-V Storage Migration on Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V Storage Migration moves a virtual machine’s storage — its VHD/VHDX files, configuration file, snapshot files, and smart paging file — from one storage location to another while the VM continues running. Unlike Live Migration (which moves a VM between hosts), Storage Migration moves only the […]

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How to Configure Hyper-V Live Migration on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Hyper-V Live Migration on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Hyper-V Live Migration on Windows Server 2019 Live Migration moves a running virtual machine from one Hyper-V host to another with zero downtime — the VM continues running throughout the move, and users experience no interruption. This is essential for host maintenance (patching, hardware replacement), workload balancing across a cluster, and responding to […]

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How to Set Up Hyper-V Replication on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Hyper-V Replication on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Hyper-V Replication on Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V Replica is an asynchronous virtual machine replication feature built into Windows Server 2019 that continuously replicates VMs from a primary Hyper-V server to one or more replica servers. It provides a disaster recovery capability without requiring shared storage — each site has its own independent storage. […]

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How to Configure Hyper-V Virtual Networking on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Hyper-V Virtual Networking on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Hyper-V Virtual Networking on Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V virtual networking is the fabric that connects virtual machines to each other, to the physical network, and to the Hyper-V host. Windows Server 2019 introduces several significant networking improvements over previous versions, including support for Software Defined Networking (SDN), the Virtual Filtering Platform (VFP) extension, […]

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How to Set Up Windows Defender Application Control on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Defender Application Control on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Windows Defender Application Control Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) is Microsoft’s next-generation application control technology, introduced in Windows 10 and fully supported on Windows Server 2019. Unlike AppLocker, which operates in user space, WDAC policies are enforced by the Windows kernel and can be protected by Virtualization-Based Security (HVCI). WDAC supersedes Device Guard […]

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How to Set Up Device Guard on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Device Guard on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Device Guard Device Guard is a set of hardware and software security features in Windows Server 2019 that locks down a device to run only trusted applications and drivers. It consists of two main components: Virtualization-Based Code Integrity (HVCI, also called Memory Integrity), which uses Hyper-V to protect the kernel from unsigned or […]

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How to Configure Credential Guard on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Credential Guard on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Credential Guard Credential Guard is a Windows 10/Server 2019 virtualization-based security feature that isolates credential storage from the main operating system. Traditionally, the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) stores and manages credentials including NTLM password hashes, Kerberos tickets, and cleartext passwords (in some configurations). If an attacker gains kernel-level access or exploits […]

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How to Set Up an SLES 16 Template in VMware — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up an SLES 16 Template in VMware

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Set Up an SLES 16 Template in VMware on SLES 16. SLES 16 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Prerequisites Ensure your SLES 16 system is up to date: […]

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