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 ...

Container infrastructure has gone from a niche technology favored by tech-savvy developers and cloud services to a mainstream enterprise deployment environment with stunning speed, however, what’s ...

Nutanix and EMC-VMWare just entered a new phase in the battle to determine who wins in the hyper-converged infrastructure market. Kurt Marko assesses the combatants. The latest product announcements ...

VMware vSphere 4, out today, is a big release, with plenty of new features and changes, but it’s not your run-of-the-mill major update. The new features, which range from VM clustering to agentless VM ...

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how. The geographic distribution of cloud data centers makes it ...

So the VMWare team at my work tends to be very elusive when it comes to answering questions abouts potential failure points. You have to ask very directed questions. My group internally is trying 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 ...

VMware vSphere 4.0 touches on almost every aspect of managing a virtual infrastructure, from ESX host provisioning to virtual network management to backup and recovery of virtual machines. Time will ...

Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) has been around for a number of years. HCI systems consolidate the traditionally separate functions of compute (server) and storage into a single scale-out ...