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Microsoft and Intel Pushing iSCSI Performance Limits
How fast can iSCSI get? “Maximizing Hyper-V iSCSI Performance with Microsoft and Intel” might sound like another “blah blah” marketing piece, but a little birdy tells me that this webcast will drop a...
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How Did Microsoft and Intel Get 1 Million iSCSI IOPS?
Ever since Microsoft and Intel declared that the combination of Windows and Nehalem could deliver over a million iSCSI IOPS, I’ve been curious about just how they did it. What black magic could push...
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DroboPro – Hyper-V’s Best Friend!
I’ve had my DroboPro for some time now and initially I had mixed results with it. Although I was aware of the single connection to an iSCSI target restriction, I was slightly disappointed with the...
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The Stack Wars Have Begun!
Just as public cloud computing is beginning to catch on, the enterprise data center world has been shaken up by the biggest IT product vendors. Rather than sit back and watch their wares commoditized,...
View ArticlePodcast 7: Stack Wars Roundtable 2
This week’s Tech Field Day roundtable discussion is an audio chat on the subject of stack wars – the creation of all-in-one “stacks” of IT equipment by the major vendors. These stacks have been quite a...
View ArticleCloud Fight – OpenStack Steps Up
VMware appears to have an interesting fight on its hands in the near future in the cloud computing realm. Much has been said about virtualization platform interoperability. VMware is constantly pushing...
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Microsoft Adds Data Deduplication to NTFS in Windows 8
Windows 8 server editions will include a filter driver for NTFS for data deduplication The next version of Microsoft Windows Server includes integrated data deduplication technology. Microsoft is...
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Virtual Machine Mobility: Of What, and to Where and in What State?
Stepping out of a subway car is an entirely different matter when it's moving! Mobility of virtual machines is a sticky wicket. As open systems infrastructure becomes increasingly virtualized,...
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Hyper-V over SMB – Sample Configurations
Jose Barreto – MSFT comments at TechNet: This post describes a few different Hyper-V over SMB sample configurations with increasing levels of availability. Not all configurations are recommended for...
View ArticleUsing SMB shares with Hyper-V Replica
Aashish Ramdas from the Windows Virtualization Team Blog comments: SMB is getting a lot of attention with Windows Server 2012, and we’ve had questions from a few customers regarding the inter-play...
View ArticleContainers! For Windows! Courtesy of Docker
Jeff Wilson of Agnostic Computing comments: Big news yesterday for fans of agnostic cloud/on-prem computing. Docker -the application virtualization stack that’s caught on like wildfire among the *nix...
View ArticleDouble-Take Move — vSphere to Hyper-V migration
Eric Wright of DiscoPosse comments: For anyone who has had to move virtual guests from a VMware vSphere environment to a Microsoft Hyper-V environment, you know the challenges that are involved. Now,...
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