The Experts Conference – TEC 2011–After Action Report

I enjoyed my time at the TEC2011 conference. The networking with fellow IT Pros was excellent and the discussions were rich in content. It’s fun to see that a lot of people are already looking at Windows 8 server. In … Continue reading

Transparent Failover & Node Fault Tolerance With SMB 2.2 Tested

Transparent Failover and node fault tolerance with SMB 2.2 in Windows 8 Server is something that caught my attention immediately. The entire effort in infrastructure has been to keep the plumbing as invisible & unnoticed as possible. In some areas … Continue reading

Data Protection & Disaster Recovery in Windows 8 Server Hyper-V 3.0

The news coming in from the Build Windows conference is awesome. The speculation of the last months is being validated by what is being told and on top of that more goodness is thrown at us Hyper-V techies. On the … Continue reading

Hyper-V Cluster Nodes Upgrade: Zero Down Time With Intel VT FlexMigration

Well the oldest Hyper-V cluster nodes are 3 + years old. They’ve been running Hyper-V clusters since RTM of Hyper-V for Windows 2008 RTM. Yes you needed to update the “beta” versions to the RTM version of Hyper-V that came … Continue reading