Port mirroring is a feature that duplicates network traffic from a source host’s port to a secondary host for analysis. It can be used for monitoring, troubleshooting, and analyzing network ...

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We're deploying a Hyper-V cluster in our Datacenter next month. About 2 years ago when 2008 R2 was just coming out I did a trial using Hyper-V in a cluster and at the time I opted to use a Core ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

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 ...

A step-by-step guide to using SAN-less failover clustering software to support SQL Server’s Always On Failover Clustering in the public cloud The thing about clouds is that they can change shape even ...

In my previous column, I explained how to perform a rolling upgrade on a clustered Hyper-V deployment, taking the servers from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2016. Once this process has ...

There's a gradual shift in the business world away from the market leader VMware Inc. for virtualization; partly because Microsoft Hyper-V is more cost effective in most scenarios, and partly because ...