DataON Storage, the leading provider of OS-agnostic Storage enclosures, has announced that their cluster-in-a-box and JBOD enclosures have recvieved certification for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 ...

I got a consulting gig! Standing up IT infra green field for friends startup. Network is up. Everything is dual leg and segregated into VLANs. Now standing up the management Hyper-V cluster which will ...

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 ...

Microsoft's first attempt at creating a software-defined storage platform wasn't a big hit. Its updated version just might be. One of the most difficult things in designing IT infrastructure is to get ...

In just over a year, Microsoft went from having basically no real enterprise-class server virtualization technology to one that is at par and has VMware scared and running. Back in the middle of 2008, ...

Microsoft delivered a completely new way of looking at our disks and storage in Windows Server 2012, with the biggest change in how storage is laid out and provisioned. Here's how to create and manage ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Microsoft this week summarized the top Storage Spaces Direct improvements that will be coming to Windows Server 2019. Storage Spaces Direct is a way of pooling disk storage, but it isn't new. It's ...

Although Windows Server storage pools have been around for long enough to be stable, things can and sometimes do go wrong. When that happens, it can be surprisingly difficult to delete a corrupt ...

2 drives 1 = 4TB 1 = 500GB (iSCSI from a Dell Compellent) Both drives are in the cluster and failover no problem (C) Copyright 2001-2012 Microsoft Corp. Error: A ...