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 ...

Here's how to use the Failover Cluster Manager to make virtual machines fault tolerant or to create new virtual machines. One of the biggest disadvantages to running Hyper-V on standalone ...

The trickiest thing about making a stretched cluster work with Hyper-V is getting the underlying storage to work properly. Although Hyper-V can easily function on a standalone server (or even on a ...

Hyper-V R2 now supports a maximum of 1,000 virtual machines (VMs) in a cluster. Previously, in May, the hypervisor just supported a total of 960 VMs per cluster. A cluster can be defined as a grouping ...

I’m a huge fan of server virtualization for mixed purpose hosting. It’s not a perfect fit for every situation but it’s very versatile. The portability of guest operating systems adds some level of ...

I am having a problem with my MSCS cluster that I have just built on top of my physical RDM VM with VMXNet 3 NIC, it always failed in the error 1129 during network ...

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 ...

I’ve written many posts about my adventures in virtualized server building and management over the past couple of years. Mostly to document what I’ve learned and to see what others are doing. Things ...