Data replication and failover vendor Double-Take Software Tuesday unveiled a lineup of products to support the forthcoming Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization environment. The company made the ...

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Windows Server 2008 R2 is a modest upgrade to Microsoft's server operating system line that stands out most for its ...

Hyper-V health monitoring should assess failover readiness, not just replication status. PowerShell scoring estimates VM failover success using replication health and detected issues. Replication ...

Its not a secret that my Linux experience is pretty limited, please keep this in mind as I frame this issue. I've setup a VM webserver using CentOS, and generally speaking it's going ok. There's one ...

Microsoft announced earlier this month that failover cluster support using Hyper-V R2 has gotten a boost. Hyper-V R2 now supports a maximum of 1,000 virtual machines (VMs) in a cluster. Previously, in ...

Brien details the pros and cons of Hyper-V replication versus clustering, and what scenarios work best for each method. For several years now, I have been using Hyper-V's replication feature to ...

Microsoft has put out in Preview a technology that will completely change how we view disaster recovery and failover of virtual machines and the benefits of the Cloud! What Azure Site Recovery (ASR) ...