A while ago I noticed that when I started virtual machines on Hyper-V on my laptop – they were taking just over a minute to start. Looking at the Hyper-V management console showed that for most of this time the virtual machine was sitting at “Starting...

A while ago we announced that Microsoft Hyper-V Server R2 would support booting off of a USB flash device. We have now provided detailed documentation on how to set this up. Even cooler than booting Hyper-V off of a USB device – is the fact that what...

The procedure has not changed much since ESXi 3.5 but I thought I would document it anyway. A lot of people seem to end up here by googling “USB ESXi vSphere”. Here you go: First get the following tools: 7-Zip (Free), WinImage (Demo) Download the ESXi...