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Use AWS CloudFormation to create a highly available cluster

March 27, 2013 12:40pm PDT

Nick Hardiman shows you the step-by-step procedure to creating a high-availability cluster for a SaaS app using the AWS CloudFormation template.

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Deploy and manage Hyper-V host clusters with System Center 2012 VMM

March 21, 2012 7:14am PDT

John Joyner details the steps to deploying host clusters using the Virtual Machine Manager in System Center 2012 and also shows how VMM is used to manage your Hyper-V clusters.

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Two good virtualization books for IT pros

December 20, 2011 1:30pm PST

Rick Vanover recommends two books on virtualization technology that you might consider buying for an IT pro friend or to share with colleagues in an IT department.

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Hyper-V host maintenance mode tips and tricks

August 25, 2011 1:54pm PDT

One of virtualization's best features is that it can easily perform host maintenance. Learn how Hyper-V works and when to use it.

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Specify a failover host for HA clusters in VMware

January 4, 2011 9:47pm PST

Virtualization expert Rick Vanover explains the pros and the cons of using the specified failover host option in VMware's High Availability feature.

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Four steps for selecting your development technologies

September 28, 2010 1:02pm PDT

If you're starting a new programming project and you're trying to decide which development technologies to use, this decision making process will help you narrow down your choices.

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Adding multiple NetBIOS names for Windows servers

May 10, 2010 7:15am PDT

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.

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Microsoft released the process to cluster IIS: Why would you do it?

December 28, 2009 6:00am PST

Brad Bird explains why you might want to cluster IIS, also making use of virtual machines, which renders IIS both fault tolerant and highly available.

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Configuring Windows Server 2008's Failover Cluster Management tool

December 10, 2009 8:08am PST

The Failover Cluster Management tool included with Windows Server 2008 allows you to create and manage server clusters. Scott Lowe provides an overview.

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Oracle 11g Release 2 available

September 1, 2009 7:39am PDT

Oracle said Tuesday that the second release of its 11g database is generally available. The update comes two years after the launch of 11g.

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Reduce hardware needs and ease administration with Exchange 2010

August 19, 2009 5:41am PDT

Exchange 2010 builds on many of the good aspects of Exchange 2007, and organizations migrating to Exchange 2010 will be able to do so with less hardware. Scott Lowe discusses some of the new...

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Clustering enhancements in Windows Server 2008 R2 improve migration time

May 15, 2009 3:19am PDT

An enhancement to Windows Server 2008 R2 is clustered shared volumes. Rick Vanover provides an overview of this important change.

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Cluster configuration recovery tools in Windows Server 2008

December 9, 2008 5:00am PST

Microsoft clustering services on versions prior to Windows Server 2008 used a command line tool to fix drive issues. Windows Server 2008 puts this in the interface, making drive tasks more accessible.

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Should my application be highly available or fault tolerant?

October 24, 2008 7:46am PDT

Blogger Brad Bird describes a clustering solution that provides both high availability and fault tolerance for applications.

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All you need to know about Windows Clustering

November 14, 2007 3:00pm PST

With Windows Server 2003, Microsoft has overhauled Windows Clustering Services to meet the greater demand for high availability and scalability that has come with the increased spread of the 24/7...

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Yahoo and Carnegie Mellon University to work together on supercomputing cluster

November 13, 2007 11:44am PST

Carnegie Mellon University and Yahoo have announced a collaborative project to advance distributed computing and software research.

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Google and IBM team up to take parallel computing to the colleges

October 9, 2007 7:29am PDT

Google and IBM have teamed together in an initiative to advance large-scale distributed computing. How do they plan to do this? By making resources available to researchers and students.

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Test SQL Server 2000 Clustering in VMware Workstation

September 21, 2007 6:14pm PDT

SQL Server 2000 is a robust and complicated product, especially when you are using it in a clustered setup. Properly deploying and managing it requires a reliable testing environment, but that can...

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Building a Windows 2003 Cluster

August 26, 2007 9:38pm PDT

Microsoft has overhauled Windows Clustering Services to meet the greater demand for high availability and scalability that has come with the increased spread of the 24/7 marketplace. I'm going to...

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Microsoft Virtual Server R2: The Right Tool for the Job?

July 18, 2007 5:53pm PDT

Consolidation with Microsoft Virtual Server R2 has reduced a total of 42U worth of rack space down into 8U--a huge saving in our cramped data center. It has definitely been the Right Tool for the Job.