Virtual machine storage is a demanding business. Where once one app server equalled one physical server and the demands on storage were known and predictable, with virtual machines, storage I/O has ...

Looking for a quick, easy and inexpensive way to increase your file server capacity or do some server consolidation with existing hardware? A virtual file server using VMWare or Microsoft ...

Recently I was setting up some Hyper-V virtual machines for a project that I am working on. For this particular project I needed a few virtual machines running Windows 7 and an older version of Office ...

The term NAS virtualisation can be used to describe two capabilities of NAS appliances. NAS virtualisation can refer to the ability to virtualise multiple NAS heads into a single virtualised file ...

Java 18's Simple Web Server lets you use a command-line tool or API to host files and more. Here's how it works. One of the handiest new features included in the Java 18 release (March 2022) was the ...

On Windows Server 2016 or 2019, how long has "chkdsk /r" taken on large volumes (>2 TB)? I'm thinking through the pros and cons between using NTFS on file servers and replicating the data using DFS, ...