So last night I was building a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster in a virtual environment with Windows Server 2008 on the free version of VMware Server. When building clusters on VMware, I typically ...

Enterprise IT departments deal with a conflicting set of priorities and constraints in data centers. The number of IT systems identified as critical to core business processes continues to increase as ...

Virtualization and clustering can be two faces of the same coin. Computing virtualization is a very hot topic for data center managers. Whether the motivation is higher utilization, reduced management ...

As virtualization puts more application eggs into fewer server baskets, design principles such as high availability require more attention. Consultants and IT managers working in the virtualization ...

Familiarizing yourself with Proxmox will help you in the long run ...

ScaleMP announced a new version of its server virtualization for aggregation platform, vSMP Foundation 3.5. The latest version expands support for four-socket systems and adds additional Linux ...

No matter the size of your business, having an IT infrastructure that includes cost-effective disaster recovery and business continuity preparedness solutions is a necessity in today's economic ...

A look at what's new in general and specifically for virtualization and containers in the next LTSC release, Windows Server 2019, due out in the second half of 2018. In case you haven't kept up with ...

Enterprise high availability usually means buying expensive rack servers with redundant power supplies and IPMI management cards. The hardware alone costs thousands before you even think about ...

Virtual machine density refers to how many virtual machines your virtual infrastructure host servers can maintain, while still performing well themselves and also providing enough compute resources ...