Windows Server How-To. How to Make Hyper-V Virtual Machines Highly Available. Here's how to use the Failover Cluster Manager to make virtual machines fault tolerant or to create new virtual machines.

We all know that Hyper-V leverages Windows Failover Clustering as its solution for high availability. These two components work together to Live Migrate VMs between cluster nodes.

We all know that Hyper-V leverages Windows Failover Clustering as its solution for high availability. These two components work together to Live Migrate VMs between cluster nodes. Together they enable ...

I've been asked by a friend for some third-party advice on a major IT investment for his small business: their first virtualization cluster. The general plan, given their size, is for two nodes ...

I created a 2012R2 cluster using iSCSI storage and 3 nodes, and added a Hyper-V guest. However, I had not yet created the network (MS-native LACP team on each host) that I was going to use for the ...

The increased capacity was enabled because Hyper-V R2 now supports up to 384 VMs per node. Microsoft described the earlier limitations in a blog post on Wednesday. "Until May 2010, the support limit ...

It turns out that Hyper-V has had a versioning for virtual machine (VM) configuration files, with the original release in Windows Server 2008 being version 1, all the way up to Windows Server 2012 R2 ...

Hyper-V 2012 pushes the limits to 4TB of RAM per host and 64 nodes per cluster, and it adds advanced features such as a virtual switch, a virtual SAN, and live storage migration that were ...

Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V virtual machines can be live migrated to Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V nodes, thereby enabling a cluster operating system upgrade without taking any of the virtual ...

The appliance is connected via 4 NICs using link aggregation and each cluster host is connected via 2 NICs using MPIO. While the 1Gb link doesn’t sound like much, we see surprisingly good ...

The increased capacity was enabled because Hyper-V R2 now supports up to 384 VMs per node. Microsoft described the earlier limitations in a blog post on Wednesday. "Until May 2010, the support limit ...