Failover Cluster holds utmost importance in a production environment. If you have configured WSFC in the environment, and for some reason, a node goes down, there will be a backup node ready to take ...

One of the really great things about Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is that it removes the requirement for shared storage. Microsoft recommends the use of a cluster shared volume ...

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 ...

Microsoft has resolved a known issue that triggers Cluster service and VM restart issues after installing July's Windows Server 2019 security updates. The company acknowledged the bug in a private ...

Q: A company's IT team is in the planning stage of implementing highly available virtual machines on a guest failover cluster using the shared VHDx technology in Windows Server 2012 R2. Which of the ...

What's the best way to do this? Due to the cluster I cannot just do a one-by-one upgrade, I guess (down one node, install 2012 on a new pair of HDDs, manually set up everything again, migrate all the ...

Higher levels of availability have become all the rage. The days of service-level agreements (SLAs) with explicit definitions of RPO (recovery-point objectives) and RTO (recovery-time objectives) may ...