True stretched clusters are out of reach for many, but you can use the concepts to avoid downtime -- even amid major upgrades Last week, I wrote about the huge benefits and associated challenges of ...

The trickiest thing about making a stretched cluster work with Hyper-V is getting the underlying storage to work properly. Although Hyper-V can easily function on a standalone server (or even on a ...

A hyper-converged infrastructure based on VMware virtualization technologies uses VMware's vSAN to provide software-defined storage to the HCI cluster. VMware supports several types of vSAN clusters, ...

Greg Schulz, author of several books on storage, is founder of the StorageIO Group, an IT industry analyst consultancy whose blog can be found at storageioblog.com ...

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