TL,DR: Anybody else looking at this combo to replace a VMware stack? So we're a smallish long time VMware customer; I've been running most of my server room on ESX since 2.5, and it's been great. I'm ...

The trickiest thing about making a stretched cluster work with Hyper-V is getting the underlying storage to work properly. Although Hyper-V can easily function on a standalone server (or even on a ...

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 ...

It's time again for Brien to perform a major storage upgrade on his Hyper-V hosts. But this time, he's taking a new approach. Throughout my years in IT, there are two things that I have constantly ...

Most IT managers will agree that Microsoft Hyper-V has some catching up to do with the VMware hypervisor when it comes to the management and flexibility of handling large virtual machine (VM) ...

I have a test Hyper-V server that I"ve been playing around with. Currently all my VHD files have been stored on the server's local HDD, but I want to transfer the stores into an iSCSI drive.<BR><BR>I ...

With the release of Windows server 2012, Microsoft extended the capability of its flagship operating system by including a number of new storage features that enable Windows to provide the ...

One of Hyper-V’s biggest problems, the high cost of storage associated with VM server sprawl, is being fixed by an add-on product from Virsto Software, a storage virtualization startup with an ...

The folks at Citrix are at it again. They are trying to execute a preemptive strike so that their technology will come to be pervasive. It is clear that Citrix is taking a page out of the open source ...