I've been asked by a friend for some third-party advice on a major IT investment for his small business: their first virtualization cluster. The general plan, given their size, is for two nodes with ...

We're deploying a Hyper-V cluster in our Datacenter next month. About 2 years ago when 2008 R2 was just coming out I did a trial using Hyper-V in a cluster and at the time I opted to use a Core ...

Here's how to use the Failover Cluster Manager to make virtual machines fault tolerant or to create new virtual machines. One of the biggest disadvantages to running Hyper-V on standalone ...

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 ...

Running a bunch of hyper-v virtual machines that matter? You’ll want a high availability cluster. Of course you’ll also want to take backups of those VMs as well. Prior to moving your VMs into the HA ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's no doubt Microsoft is serious about making Hyper-V a contender for enterprise virtualization and private cloud. The Windows Server 2012 release was full of new features and scalability ...

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 ...