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08Dec2016
Hyper-V Failover Cluster Best Practices (footnotes)
Some of you may be familiar with this handy best practices checklist, published by Microsoft. Actually it comes in three varieties currently (I haven't seen an updated one for 2016 yet): 2012 Hyper-V Best Practices and 2012 R2 Hyper-V Best Practices 2008 R2 Hyper-V Best Practices It's a pretty good resource. In my...
08Aug2016
Hyper-V Failover Cluster: MPIO & CSV Storage
Continuing our last post on Hyper-V Failover Clustering, we turn our focus from networking to storage. To bring storage into the picture, we will have to provision some volumes from Storage Spaces, our SAN or other Shared Storage device. This varies by vendor, so see their documentation for more details. However you...
04Aug2016
Hyper-V Failover Cluster: Converged Network
In this post, we will look at a concept known as "Converged Networking" for setting up a simple two-node Hyper-V cluster (a great option for small businesses). The basic idea is that all of your physical network adapters will be brought together as a single NIC team, and thereby made...
01Aug2016
Hyper-V Failover Cluster: Affordable HA for the SMB
Next to Office 365, virtualization is still the number one recommendation I make to small businesses. It's a no-brainer. Enabling Hyper-V opens up so many great opportunities--grow your server's CPU, RAM or storage on the fly, perform host-level backups, Live Migrate to new hardware with no downtime, use Hyper-V Replica or Azure Site Recovery...
21Jul2016