The trickiest thing about making a stretched cluster work with Hyper-V is getting the underlying storage to work properly. Although Hyper-V can easily function on a standalone server (or even on a ...

I'm trying to troubleshoot some errors being generated by our HyperV cluster, and I'm getting a bit of a headache. Every 15 minutes from the year dot, one of the nodes has generated four Event 1207 ...

One of the main sticking points with learning Hyper-V is getting your head around the Clustered Shared Volumes technique to provide .VHD files on a SAN to multiple Hyper-V hosts. The CSV technique is ...

There's a gradual shift in the business world away from the market leader VMware Inc. for virtualization; partly because Microsoft Hyper-V is more cost effective in most scenarios, and partly because ...

Here’s another tricky issue you might encounter when working with your Windows Hyper-V cluster. When you first create your cluster, Hyper-V creates a Cluster network name resource for use in ...

Brien details the pros and cons of Hyper-V replication versus clustering, and what scenarios work best for each method. For several years now, I have been using Hyper-V's replication feature to ...

True stretched clusters are out of reach for many, but you can use the concepts to avoid downtime -- even amid major upgrades Last week, I wrote about the huge benefits and associated challenges of ...