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 ...

I have an ancient Win2k3R2 cluster with a file-sharing role on it; I need to migrate all of that file share data somewhere else (newer, more reliable, etc). Currently everything refers to it directly ...

Has anyone played with it? I already knew new Hyper-V will have some pretty awesome HA features, virtual FC cards, proper virtual networking etc and the 2011 dev preview showed great SMB/CIFS ...