Redis is an open-source, in-memory database that offers plenty of features and more than enough performance to power your enterprise-level app or service. Recently, I wrote about deploying Redis on a ...

Brien details the pros and cons of Hyper-V replication versus clustering, and what scenarios work best for each method. For several years now, I have been using Hyper-V's replication feature to ...

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 ...

Every couple of months it seems like this one cluster in particular randomly tells one of the blade modules to go into a zombie state where it responds to pings yet nothing else. To the other blades, ...