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 ...

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 ...

Personally, I’m a staunch member of the Proxmox faction and wouldn’t trade it for anything else. But after falling down the ...

We've looked at quite a bit so far -- scalability improvements, NUMA, VM monitoring and replication, to name a few -- in the first six parts of this series. Let's turn our attention to a hot topic and ...

In this post, we will see how to shrink and compact hard disks in Hyper-V. This allows you to make room for the hard disks if they are too big for your physical computer. Since Hyper-V hard disks are ...

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 ...

Sanbolic has introduced a new cost-effective shared storage solution that works with Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor technology. The company says its new Kayo File System will eliminate the need for ...

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 ...