Brien details the pros and cons of Hyper-V replication versus clustering, and what scenarios work best for each method. For several years now, I have been using Hyper-V's replication feature to ...

I’m a huge fan of server virtualization for mixed purpose hosting. It’s not a perfect fit for every situation but it’s very versatile. The portability of guest operating systems adds some level of ...

Microsoft announced earlier this month that failover cluster support using Hyper-V R2 has gotten a boost. Hyper-V R2 now supports a maximum of 1,000 virtual machines (VMs) in a cluster. Previously, in ...

Hyper-V R2 now supports a maximum of 1,000 virtual machines (VMs) in a cluster. Previously, in May, the hypervisor just supported a total of 960 VMs per cluster. A cluster can be defined as a grouping ...

Hoping I can bounce some ideas off you here. We're in the advanced stages of planning our colo datacenter move from Southern California to Denver. We are a 99% Microsoft Shop with NetApp storage and ...

Its not a secret that my Linux experience is pretty limited, please keep this in mind as I frame this issue. I've setup a VM webserver using CentOS, and generally speaking it's going ok. There's one ...

Hyper-V guest clusters can be a handy tool for providing application-level resiliency for your mission-critical workloads. Even so, the use of guest clusters adds an extra layer of complexity to your ...