First, this is all done using VMs with VMWare Server because i'm testing my network plan before implementing it late this year. This is also my first time working with clusters.<BR><BR>I just finished ...

Has anyone played with it? I already knew new Hyper-V will have some pretty awesome HA features, virtual FC cards, proper virtual networking etc and the 2011 dev preview showed great SMB/CIFS ...

Getting top performance from a storage system and making applications faster and more resilient are two critical and challenging aspects of computing. Unfortunately, many vendors’ solutions focus on ...

You are configuring a failover cluster for a Web server. You are assigning four nodes to the cluster. All nodes have access to a SAN and there is adequate space available. Which of the following ...

PolyServe added the automated collection of performance statistics to it Linux file server clustering utility. The company, which provides file server clustering software, enhanced its PolyServe File ...

Russ Miller runs a monster of a server cluster that eats storage at an incredible rate. The bandwidth requirements alone on his 22TFLOPS system force Miller to look outside the storage box, so to ...

What you will learn from this tip: How to get the support you need for iSCSI SANs using more than two clusters. Microsoft is supporting iSCSI SANs using clustering under two different programs. The ...

Sometimes a single server has to serve multiple NetBIOS names. Rick Vanover shares this trick to having one server work double duty in the NetBIOS department. A server’s NetBIOS name is what we still ...