Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Although many small and midsize businesses run their workloads on virtualized servers, they haven't been able to take advantage of the fault tolerant capabilities of virtualization such as failover ...

EDIT: To be very clear, this is not supported by Microsoft. As indicated by the responses below, this is also not the recommended way of doing things. Meaning if you have the resources available to ...

The Hyper-V replica feature is primarily thought of as a protective mechanism for organizations that lack the budget for a full-blown Hyper-V server. The replica feature maintains a nearly up-to-date ...

I'm taking a couple weeks off before the busiest part of Microsoft's 2012 kicks into full gear. But never fear: The Microsoft watching will go on while I'm gone. I've asked a few illustrious members ...

We've looked at quite a bit so far in regards to the newest version of Microsoft Hyper-V: the huge changes to networking functionality, scalability enhancements, NUMA management, cluster patching and ...