I have a question for people running Hyper-V farms: what's the best way to manage a (two-node) cluster with a set of permanent VMs and large number of on-demand/changing VMs? I'll be soon setting up ...

Late last week, an important plate in VMWare's proprietary battle armor was cracked open when Fluid Operations, the company behind the eCloudmanagerstorage virtualization product open-sourced on the ...

Backup Exec 2010 R2 x64 on physical Windows 2008 Enterprise x64 box. Hyper-V 2008 Server R2 <core> hosts x 2 in a failover cluster. Backup Exec Hyper-V Agents installed on hosts, RAWS installed on VMs ...

VMware vSphere 4, out today, is a big release, with plenty of new features and changes, but it’s not your run-of-the-mill major update. The new features, which range from VM clustering to agentless VM ...

So last night I was building a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster in a virtual environment with Windows Server 2008 on the free version of VMware Server. When building clusters on VMware, I typically ...