• Clusters of Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) are usefulto achieve application-level high availability. Clustering involves using shared storage, which provides fault tolerance and accessibility to ...

It's pretty decent for budget-friendly Proxmox home labs ...

But iSCSI SANs are finding favor among businesses of varying sizes that resisted shared storage because of Fibre Channel's cost and complexity. These iSCSI SANs are especially popular for working with ...

As recently as five years ago, business continuity and disaster-recovery topics would make IT executives in small to midsize enterprises grumble that neither was affordable. Now companies of all sizes ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

Ever found yourself juggling multiple virtual machine (VM) hosts, only to be bogged down by scattered storage, sluggish migrations, or the constant fear of data loss? Managing VM storage can feel like ...

VirtualBox is a great tool for creating, running, and managing virtual machines. It’s free, it’s flexible, and it’s powerful. If you use this tool in your data center, you might find the need to ...

When it comes to Hyper-V and VMware storage, which is better: block- or file-based access? The rate of adoption of server virtualisation has accelerated over recent years, and virtual server workloads ...

In April, Microsoft released new Azure disk sizes and burst support for Premium SSD Disks to all regions in the Azure Public Cloud. In the following month, at its virtual Build event, the tech giant ...

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 ...

Editor's note: The Maxtor Shared Storage Plus line fully replaces the Maxtor Shared Storage line, which we reviewed last year. Users of the older Shared Storage line can contact Maxtor for a free ...