Before creating and configuring a virtual switch in your computer, your computer must have the Hyper-V program installed on the computer and have administrative rights. There are three types of ...

The rise of containers that run small components known as micro-services has generated a lot of buzz in the trenches of enterprise IT over the past two years because of the potential model for how ...

If you receive a prompt with the message Error applying Virtual Switch Properties changes when you try to re-create a Hyper-V virtual switch (vSwitch) for the same ...

Microsoft's new extensible virtual switch in Hyper-V 3.0 for Windows Server 8 has already been implemented by 5nine, Broadcom, Cisco, inMon and NEC, among others. Implementations by those Microsoft ...

Continuing to show support for the idea of containers, Microsoft today released Hyper-V containers to go along with its previously announced Windows Server containers. The difference between them is ...

Microsoft is building support for Hyper-V containers into Windows 10 client, company officials publicly acknowledged late last week. On the last day of its Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft ...

Cisco is collaborating with Microsoft to bring its virtual switch to Hyper-V next year when Windows Server 8 is released. While Cisco’s Nexus 1000V distributed virtual switch already supports VMware ...

New features in Microsoft’s Hyper-V 3.0, such as scalability improvements, Live Migration, Storage Migration, replication, and networking enhancements, are quickly closing the technology gap between ...

Big Switch Networks Inc. announced that its software-defined networking (SDN)-based fabric now supports hyper-converged solutions from VMware Inc., along with multi-container environments.

The release of Windows Server 2016 will bring a new option of building apps based on micro-services that run in Docker and other standard containers. Does that portend the end of the VM? The rise of ...

Microsoft's new extensible virtual switch in Hyper-V 3.0 for Windows Server 8 has already been implemented by 5nine, Broadcom, Cisco, inMon and NEC, among others. Implementations by those Microsoft ...