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 ...

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 ...

Most IT managers will agree that Microsoft Hyper-V has some catching up to do with the VMware hypervisor when it comes to the management and flexibility of handling large virtual machine (VM) ...

If you use Hyper-V as a server virtualization platform, you might have noticed physical storage space being depleted more quickly than it should be. In this article, I am going to show you two reasons ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FalconStor's Network Storage Server (NSS), an appliance for storage virtualization, virtualization, and thin provisioning, now has specific integration with Windows Server 2008 Multi-Site Clustering ...

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 ...

Q&A: Virsto One provides high-performance, thin-provisioned snapshots and clones, and dramatically increases I/O performance for Hyper-V environments Startup Virsto (named for “virtual storage”) ...

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 ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...