I've been testing HV and Failover Clustering <FC> and it seems to work as advertised. I understand that you can make VM's highly available and I know that when you set up your FC, you create a Cluster ...

I would like to use thin provisioning for hosting VMs for Hyper-V. My prior SAN did not allow for this at all so I just setup fixed size VHD files per Microsoft’s suggestion. Most of the space is ...

Even though Hyper-V's replica feature does not provide true high-availability the way that a failover cluster does, you can use your replica infrastructure to minimize the disruption caused by the ...

FalconStor's Network Storage Server (NSS), an appliance for storage virtualization, virtualization, and thin provisioning, now has specific integration with Windows Server 2008 Multi-Site Clustering ...

Data replication and failover vendor Double-Take Software Tuesday unveiled a lineup of products to support the forthcoming Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization environment. The company made the ...

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 ...