Still Need To Optimizing Power Settings On DELL 12th Generation Servers For Lightning Fast Hyper-V Live Migrations?

Do you remember my blog from 2011 on optimizing some system settings to get way better Live Migration performance with 10Gbps NICs?  It’s over here Optimizing Live Migrations with a 10Gbps Network in a Hyper-V Cluster. This advice still holds … Continue reading

Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 Live Migration DOES support pass-through disks–KB2834898 is Wrong

See update in yellow in line (April 11th 2013) I recently saw KB2834898 (pulled) appear and it’s an important one. This fast publish statement is important as until recently it was accepted that Live Migration with pass through disks was … Continue reading

Hyper-V Cluster Node Pause & Drain fails – Live Migrations fail with “The requested operation cannot be completed because a resource has locked status”

One night I was doing some maintenance on a Hyper-V cluster and I wanted to Pause and drain one of the nodes that was up next for some tender loving care. But I was greeted by some messages: [Window Title] … Continue reading

Shared Nothing Live Migration Leverages SMB 3.0 Under the Hood

Shared Nothing Live Migration By now most of you must have heard about the Shared Nothing Live Migration capabilities introduced with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. If not I suggest you check it out over here and then come back here … Continue reading