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A Practical Guide to Microsoft Hyper-V Replica: Part II

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A Practical Guide to Microsoft Hyper-V Replica: Part II

A Hyper-V replica installation provides rapid disaster-recovery by asynchronously replicating a VM running at a primary site to a replica site. Know how to prepare...

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A Practical Guide to Microsoft Hyper-V Replica: Part I

A Hyper-V replica installation provides a great opportunity for providing rapid disaster-recovery by asynchronously replicating a VM running at a primary site to a replica...

34 min read

Hyper-V Migration Technologies

Hyper-V has become far more sophisticated since the release V3 of Windows 2012, but it means that there are now a number of alternative ways...

29 min read

Book Review: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook is a comprehensive resource for administrators and consultants looking for practical examples of Hyper-V technology. Beginners unfamiliar with Hyper-V and...

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Microsoft Hyper-V Networking and Configuration – Part III

A configuration of Hyper-V networking across two or more Hyper-V Hosts is the most complex type. It needs to be configured according to the business...

17 min read

Microsoft Hyper-V Networking and Configuration – Part 2

Hyper-V Networking can be configured to meet a wide range of requirements, but it isn't always obvious which choices are appropriate when configuring the virtual...

16 min read
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Resource Governor

If you suffer from runaway queries, if you have several database applications with unpredictable fluctuation in workload, or if you need to ensure that workloads...

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VMware Lab setup – A virtualized lab for testing HA and DRS

VMWare VSphere is a virtualisation technology that is best learned by setting up, on a single PC, a VSphere cluster as a virtualisation lab. Once...

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Jorge Segarra: DBA of the Day

Jorge Segarra, also known on Twitter as 'SQLChicken', was one of the finalists of the Exceptional DBA award this year. He lives and works in...

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Setting up your own free Virtualized test environment

If you need to test new software, configurations, or operating systems, a virtual machine saves time, risk and hardware. You can set up a virtual...

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Hyper-V R2 Live Migration on Server Core – Part I

If you're working with Hyper-V, it's recommended that you use Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core for your root partition, as its stripped-down nature makes...

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10 Steps to Kick-Start Your VMware Automation with PowerCLI

Virtualization is a powerful technology, but it comes with its own host of monotonous and time-consuming tasks, no matter how big or small your organization...

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Virtual Machine Storage Provisioning and Best Practises

If you're using virtualization technology, then at some point you'll have run out of (or will run out of) virtual disk space, leading to the...

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Hyper-V R2 Live Migration

Reliability is one of the great payoffs to virtualization, and failover clustering has got a whole lot better with Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. Now,...

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Using VMware vCenter Update Manager to keep your vSphere Hosts Up-To-Date with Patching

The chore of patching operating systems and applications is taking an increasing proportion of the time of a system administrator, so it is a a...

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Regional Office Virtualization – Less Can Be More

The dream of an 'office in a box' has been around for years, but the increasing sophistication of virtualization software has turned the dream into...

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Microsoft Hyper-V Networking and Configuration – Part 1

In the first of a series of articles on Hyper-V Networking, Nirmal explains Hyper-V networking and VLAN tagging, and shows how to set up a...

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Increasing the Availability of Virtualised Applications and Services

By using a virtualized clustering computing environment with failover, you can improve server availability without using as many physical computers. A group of independent computers...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Virtualizing Exchange Server, Part 2

It isn't easy to measure the consumption of physical resources by servers in virtual machines, since each partition has its' own virtualised view of system...

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Windows Server Virtualisation: Hyper-V, an Introduction

For SQL Server and Exchange Server, Windows Server Virtualization is going to be increasingly important as a way for the administrator to allocate hardware resources...

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