With today’s high-speed WAN links and tremendously powerful features of Windows Failover Clustering that powers Hyper-V environments, organizations have many capabilities at their fingertips to solve various business problems or various use cases. Microsoft supports a configuration of Windows Failover Clustering called Geographically Dispersed Clusters [...]
The concept of failing over critical services provides an extremely powerful way to maintain business continuity, even when a disaster occurs. It allows organizations to have continuous network service operation during a failure. Cloud failover is a new trend allowing businesses to have failover instances [...]
This Beginner’s Guide to Ransomware is a comprehensive multi-part series that will empower you with the knowledge and tools to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of ransomware threats. Part 1 – Understanding the Ransomware Basics Part 2 – Ransomware Causes, Attackers, and Mechanisms Part 3 – [...]
Choosing a Backup as a Service Provider More businesses are transitioning to Backup as a Service Provider to entrust these with protecting their business-critical data. However, you may have wondered what are Backup as a Service Providers and what do they do. Also, how do [...]
VM Replication as part of Disaster Recovery as a Service Virtual Machine (VM) Replication is an integral part of disaster recovery. At its core, VM Replication ensures that virtual machines maintain their operational state even after a disaster. Duplicating the source virtual machine onto another [...]
Hyper-V is a very flexible and capable hypervisor that offers many options for virtual machine compatibility and capabilities. In addition, Hyper-V enables admins to choose between two generations of virtual machines with pros and cons. Hyper-V administrators must select the generation of virtual machines that [...]
The tremendous operational features and functionality of the public cloud do not simply stop with high-availability mechanisms. One of the very powerful capabilities of cloud infrastructure is the seamless ability to provide scalability. Since cloud infrastructure does not involve “racking and stacking” servers and is [...]
The Hyper-V virtual Ethernet adapter is a critical component of your virtual networking for Hyper-V virtual machines. It provides the software construct needed for the virtual networking of VMs and other virtual resources in your Hyper-V infrastructure. Let's consider Hyper-V virtual Ethernet adapter for beginners, [...]
This article on the migration of physical machines to the VMware virtual environment will be a three-part series. In this first part, we will take a look at the following: Difference between Physical and Virtual infrastructure Benefits of migrating to a virtual environment Pros and [...]
Microsoft provides many options for standing up a virtualization platform with Hyper-V. There are a variety of options organizations can use to provision virtualized environments based on Hyper-V. However, like most enterprise software, Hyper-V requires licensing, which can differ depending on your solution for building [...]
