Disk to Disk Backup Solution with Windows Server 2012 – Part I

Backing Up 100 Plus Terabyte of Data Cheaply When dealing with large amounts of data to backup you’re going to start bleeding money. Sure people will try to sell you great solutions with deduplication, but in a lot of scenarios … Continue reading

Shared Nothing Live Migration White Board Time – Scenario I

The Problem Let’s say you are very happy with your SAN. You just love the snapshots, the thin provisioning, deduplication, automatic storage tiering, replication, ODX and the SMI-S support. Live is good! But you have one annoying issue. For example; … Continue reading

Hyper-V Shared Nothing Live Migration In Windows Server 2012– VM Mobility Rules

I see and hear some people shrug at the idea of Shared Nothing Live Migration, dismissing it as marginally useful. Some do state they’ll have it as well but that it’s not that valuable. Well I disagree totally. A lot … Continue reading

Windows 8 introduces SR-IOV to Hyper-V

We dive a bit deeper into SR-IOV today. I’m not a hardware of software network engineer but this is my perspective on what it is and why it’s valuable addition to the toolbox of Hyper-V in Windows 8. What is … Continue reading