Today’s “always-on” and “always available” IT environments require a highly available infrastructure design. Simply put in other words- you don’t want to have a single point of failure in your business-critical infrastructure. If so, it quickly becomes apparent that you are only as good as [...]
Introduction What is Oracle Virtualbox? Oracle VM Virtualbox is a free open source hypervisor to run on X86 server / desktop machines to host more guest operating systems on it independently and simultaneously. All the guest operating systems hardware is emulated by the host hypervisor. [...]
What is Failover Clustering? Failover Cluster is a group of independent computers working together to improve clustered roles ' efficiency and scalability. In the above explanation, the terms “efficiency and scalability” actually refer to the clustered applications and services. The clustered servers also referred to [...]
One of the basic functions provided by enterprise IT is the hosting of file services in an organization. Since the early days of computer networks, having shared network locations to store and edit documents and other file resources has been a basic requirement. As the [...]
There have been many new advancements in Windows Server technologies in the past few Windows Server releases. Many of these have improved upon the core features of Windows Server, including the resiliency and high-availability features it offers. One of the newer features found in Windows [...]
One of the many considerations involved with managing your Windows Server infrastructure is licensing. Licensing plays a key role in determining how you build out your infrastructure as well as what edition of Windows Server you choose for various roles. Additionally, when deploying Hyper-V in [...]
When designing any system for high availability, one of the basic fundamentals of engineering in any system is to provide redundancy. Redundancy ensures that if you do have failures (you will), there are components or mechanisms in place that will take over for the failed [...]
Each new version of Windows Server has generally improved on the underlying technologies contained in previous releases of Windows. This is true across the board with Windows Server 2019. Features related to high-availability and disaster recovery have been improved with Windows Server 2019 as well. [...]
Today’s businesses are empowering their employees to be able to work from anywhere and from many different devices. With Virtualization and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technologies driving the modern workforce employees have more connectivity and productivity options than ever before. When it comes to utilizing [...]
Adoption of Windows Server Core with Windows Server 2019 has seen the fastest adoption rate of any previous Windows Server Core edition since it was first introduced. IT admins are seeing the advantages of making use of Windows Server Core in their environments due to [...]
