Introduction In part I this article I demonstrated that some of the rules in regards to SMB Direct and the Hyper-V vSwitch as we know them for Windows Server 2012 R2 have changed with Windows Server 2016. We focused on … Continue reading
I recently had to move a Windows Server 2016 VM over to another cluster (2012R2 to 2016 cluster) and to do so I uses shared nothing live migration. After the VM was happily running on the new cluster I kicked … Continue reading
Introduction I’ve used NVMe disks on a modest scale already for code build servers, SQL Server deployments (physical or virtual) and basically for any workload where the benefits of better storage performance outweigh the loss of high availability (clustering, live … Continue reading
Introduction Hyper-V offers 3 ways of managing or tweaking the CPU scheduler to provide the best possible configuration for certain scenarios and use cases. The defaults normally work fine but of certain conditions you might want to tweak them for … Continue reading