Failover Clustering

Explore the main reasons you should consider deploying the now generally available Windows Server 2016 in your network.

Microsoft’s cloud: ready for Germany. Two new data centers now open for Azure IaaS/PaaS, with Office and Dynamics SaaS coming soon. Germany is well known for its strict data-privacy laws. And it’s one of the largest economies in the European Union. So it was a sensible location choice after the UK DCs opened earlier this month…

Azure recently experienced a nasty outage, lasting several hours. It seems to have been centered around DNS, but had wide side effects. Microsoft’s cloud platform took something of a beating. By the sound of it, a DDoS could have been to blame. Or not. Redmond isn’t saying…

Aidan Finn explains how you can deploy virtual machines to meet the system requirements for Microsoft’s 99.95% SLA on Azure VMs.

Aidan Finn explains how many cluster shared volumes (CSVs) you should have in a Windows Server 2012 R2 Scale-Out File Server.

Aidan Finn provides us a detailed look into Microsoft’s latest feature in Windows Server 2016, Storage Spaces Direct (S2D).

Aidan Finn outlines the new features of Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V that were announced at Microsoft Ignite 2015.

Aidan Finn shows how to leverage Windows Server Failover Clustering priority to manipulate and order failover of highly available Hyper-V virtual machines.

Need to learn the basics of managing Hyper-V? Aidan Finn gives us the run-down on the most important Hyper-V management tasks.

Learn when you may want to use the Hyper-V protected network feature to protect virtual machines connected to your physical network when there’s an unexpected network outage.