I'm putting together some specs for a new server and am finding it requires a lot of thought and review to get things "perfect" if there is such a goal... The budget is $14K CDN for new server ...

Organizations running server virtualization infrastructures often have to choose which hypervisor to implement. With the release of Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V, Microsoft has added another ...

Microsoft's virtualization platform has matured into a solid, dependable workhorse. Here's a primer for getting the most out of it. There's a gradual shift in the business world away from the market ...

With Windows Server 2016, Microsoft has introduced a lengthy list of improvements to Hyper-V. Along with functional additions like container support, nested virtualization, and increased memory and ...

A failed Hyper-V replication setup prompts a PowerShell-based approach to building lightweight, do-it-yourself health monitoring without the cost or complexity of an enterprise-grade tool ...

In this post, we’ll show you how to enable and configure Hyper-V Remote Management for headless Hyper-V hosts (Windows Server Core or Microsoft Hyper-V Server) from a Windows workstation, all in a non ...

With the release of Windows Server 2012 yesterday, Microsoft significantly updated its Hyper-V virtualization platform. Available both as part of Server 2012 and as a free (as in beer) standalone ...

If you've been following my writings on ZDNet for the last several years, you've probably realized by now that I am something of a virtualization and server technology junkie. In my day job as a ...

Like original offerings from market pioneer VMware and others, Microsoft's current server virtualisation product, Virtual Server 2005, is a hosted solution, designed to run as an application on top of ...

When it comes to Hyper-V and VMware storage, which is better: block- or file-based access? The rate of adoption of server virtualisation has accelerated over recent years, and virtual server workloads ...

VMware’s vSphere and Microsoft’s Hyper-V are the two leading platforms for server virtualization. Although they provide similar features and functionality, the way they manage storage for virtual ...

Organizations running server virtualization infrastructures often have to choose which hypervisor to implement. With the release of Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V, Microsoft has added another ...