Hyper-V

Security and Identity for Hyper-V Clusters on Windows Server 2025

Article 6 in the Hyper-V Cluster Design Fundamentals for Windows Server 2025 series. This article covers security and identity: what Credential Guard and VBS being on by

By Eric Black · 2 May 2026 Windows2025

Cluster Aware Updating and Patch Strategy for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025

Article 5 in the Hyper-V Cluster Design Fundamentals for Windows Server 2025 series. This article covers patching strategy: Cluster Aware Updating, hotpatching via Azure Arc, and the

By Eric Black · 30 Apr 2026 Hyper-V

Live Migration Internals and Tuning for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025

Article 4 in the Hyper-V Cluster Design Fundamentals for Windows Server 2025 series. Articles 1 through 3 covered cluster sizing, networking, and storage. This article covers live

By Eric Black · 30 Apr 2026 Hyper-V

Storage Architecture for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025: SAN, S2D, SOFS, and Campus Cluster

Article 3 in the Hyper-V Cluster Design Fundamentals for Windows Server 2025 series. Article 1 covered the design pillars. Article 2 covered networking. This article covers storage

By Eric Black · 28 Apr 2026 Hyper-V

Cluster Networking for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025

Article 2 in the Hyper-V Cluster Design Fundamentals for Windows Server 2025 series. Article 1 covered sizing, CSV, quorum, and fault domains, and explicitly punted on networking.

By Eric Black · 26 Apr 2026 Hyper-V

Hyper-V Cluster Design Fundamentals for v2025: CSVs, Quorum, Fault Domains, and the Sizing Decisions That Bite Later

This is the first article in a new series on Hyper-V cluster design for Windows Server 2025. The goal of the series: give infrastructure engineers a practical

By Eric Black · 24 Apr 2026 Veeam

Break Glass #10: Backup Chain Corruption: Recovering a Broken Forward Incremental Chain in Veeam v13

Break Glass // Scenario 10 A restore fails with "Backup files are unavailable." Or a job reports that restore points are missing in the chain. Or the

By Eric Black · 22 Apr 2026 Veeam

Break Glass #09: ReFS and XFS Block Clone Failures: Diagnosing and Fixing Fast Clone Errors in Veeam v13

Break Glass // Scenario 09 Synthetic full backup jobs are failing or running slower than they should. The session log shows errors related to ReFS integrity streams or XFS

By Eric Black · 22 Apr 2026 Veeam

Break Glass #08: Repository Out of Space Mid-Job: Recovering and Getting Backups Running Again

Break Glass // Scenario 08 The repository ran out of space while a job was running. Backup jobs are failing. Some jobs got partway through a write before they

By Eric Black · 21 Apr 2026 Veeam

Break Glass #07: Hardened Repository Lockout: Restoring Access to a Disconnected Veeam Linux Repository

Break Glass // Scenario 07 VBR cannot connect to the Hardened Linux Repository. Backup jobs are failing. The VBR server was rebuilt, or a component upgrade consumed the single-

By Eric Black · 20 Apr 2026 Veeam

Veeam v13: Cross-Platform Restore from VMware to Hyper-V

Veeam v13: Cross-Platform Restore from VMware to Hyper-V Instant Recovery of a VMware VM backup to a Hyper-V cluster, plus the VMware Tools cleanup Veeam

By Eric Black · 17 Apr 2026 Veeam

System Center VMM 2025 on Hyper-V with Veeam v13

System Center VMM 2025 on Hyper-V with Veeam v13 SCVMM management plane on a Hyper-V cluster with backup and replica from Veeam Backup and Replication v13

By Eric Black · 16 Apr 2026