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 ...

Go to Server Manager > File and Storage Services. Click on iSCSI tab. Click on Tasks > New iSCSI Virtual disk. We can either select a hard drive or just a folder in the server, to do so, click on ...

Unless I am mistaken you are stuck with shared storage for a File Server Cluster, even in Windows 2008R2. If/When MS brings a share-nothing generalized clustering solution, I will be all over it ...

The latest "Redstone 5"build -- Number 17650 -- is for both Windows Server 2019 and the associated Windows Server Semi-Annual Channel release, known as 1809. There are a couple of new features in ...

Application Center 2000 is Microsoft-oriented — it runs only on Windows 2000 servers with IIS and favors Microsoft’s Web technologies such as Active Server Pages.

The File Server Resource Manager is not installed by default in Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2. To install it, you must open the Server Manager and choose the Add Roles and Features command from ...

With Node and Disk Majority clusters, the cluster uses a witness disk as the tiebreaker node and the cluster runs as long as there is a majority of nodes online and available. A witness disk used with ...

Creating a Failover Cluster in the Windows server ensures high availability and reliability for apps and services. In this article, we will explain how to create a failover cluster in Windows ...

When connected to a Windows Server 2022 system, simply go to the Files and file sharing menu item, pick File shares, and then add Compress data to existing or new shares.

The File Server Resource Manager is a tool that was introduced in Windows Server over a decade ago. It's still alive and well in Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2.