Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Although many small and midsize businesses run their workloads on virtualized servers, they haven't been able to take advantage of the fault tolerant capabilities of virtualization such as failover ...

The final part of Brien's Hyper-V upgrade involves using a 10GbE connection for replication traffic -- without having access to enterprise-class hardware. In Part 1, I talked about some of the ...

EDIT: To be very clear, this is not supported by Microsoft. As indicated by the responses below, this is also not the recommended way of doing things. Meaning if you have the resources available to ...

We've looked at quite a bit so far in regards to the newest version of Microsoft Hyper-V: the huge changes to networking functionality, scalability enhancements, NUMA management, cluster patching and ...

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 ...

Veeam Backup & Replication aims to help Hyper-V shops move move up the virtual food chain from dev/test environments into production At the Microsoft TechEd conference this week, Veeam Software ...

[ Editor’s note: This article has been revised to underscore the fact that we tested VMware vSphere with vCenter Server but we tested Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V without System Center 2012, and ...