Quick Bites: Port mirroring differs from port forwarding in its non-redirective nature. While port forwarding alters packet destinations, mirroring simply duplicates packets for monitoring purposes. Think of it as creating a carbon copy of network traffic for analysis without affecting its original flow The process [...]
One of the key components when it comes to your infrastructure data is storage. Especially when it comes to virtualized environments, storage is one of the key components that makes virtualization possible. There are many different types of storage from the more traditional architecture to [...]
Today, virtualization has taken over in just about every aspect of server architecture. For the most part organization look to virtualize just about any and every kind of server resource as long as there is no underlying reason to run it on bare metal hardware. [...]
This blog on Hyper-V Storage Configuration is a three-part series. We will cover a number of different storage configurations with Microsoft Hyper-V, including their characteristics, features, configuration, and use cases. In the first part, we discussed the Hyper-V related storage technologies – Direct Attached Storage, [...]
There is no doubt that security concerns top the list of initiatives and concerns for IT administrators as well as CIOs and CEOs alike. Security is something that must be taken seriously no matter what system or platform is utilized in an organization’s environment. Since [...]
In the previous post, we examined how Hyper-V virtual switches are created using the Hyper-V Manager and Powershell. In this third and last part of the Hyper-V virtual switch overview, let’s look at managing Hyper-V virtual switches. We will also take a look at the [...]
Virtualization has changed the way we provision server infrastructure, build out development environments, and purchase hardware. It has allowed great efficiencies in the enterprise data center that simply are not possible with running on physical servers to host mission critical workloads. The two major players [...]
Designing a Microsoft Hyper-V environment affords many areas to configure and design where you will experience a very performant, stable, and robust virtualization environment. However, making errors in the design can certainly lead to major issues when it comes to performance and the stability of [...]
Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V is a rock-solid virtualization platform for today’s enterprise environments. Like any enterprise ready solution, Windows Server Hyper-V boasts many built in mechanisms that allow Hyper-V hosts to provide high availability to the production virtual machine workloads they are serving out. Table [...]
One of the tremendous advantages of virtualization platforms like Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V is the ability to make the production virtual machine workloads highly available. High availability is essential for business-critical applications as it provides a mechanism to withstand hardware failures without these drastically impacting [...]
