Okay so we all know of windows HA clusters. Most also know of DFS for providing high availability to file servers. What I am looking for is the most transparent/seamless failover mechanism possible ...

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 ...

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 ...

As locking down information becomes a more critical priority for IT organizations, securing individual files or shares is completely dependent on effectively setting up security groups. Because ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As well as the traditional n-tier client-server architecture and the familiar approach of virtual ...

The solution needed to be compatible with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, affordable and easy to implement. It also needed to guarantee 100 percent uptime. Engineers first looked into ...

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 ...