About Nick Taylor

Consultant – Model Technology Solutions Nick is an IT professional with more than 19 years of experience and a passion for learning about technology. His areas of expertise include datacenter, hypervisors, storage, network, cloud, and OSD. He spends his free time delving in crypto, video games, automation, IoT, and really anything nerdy.

Data Center Migration and Disaster Recovery Using Microsoft Azure
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Data Center Migration and Disaster Recovery Using Microsoft Azure

By Nick Taylor|2019-02-19T20:38:30+00:00February 20th, 2019|Azure|

tl;dr Managing disaster recovery is tough, but especially for a growing business, because of DR tech lag. Using Azure Site Recovery helps you avoid DR tech lag, not to mention [...]

Not Sure What Microsoft Azure Does? Try “Everything Important”
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Not Sure What Microsoft Azure Does? Try “Everything Important”

By Nick Taylor|2019-01-07T10:50:10+00:00January 9th, 2019|Azure|

What Microsoft Azure does is not a mystery, but the set of things that it can do can be a little overwhelming. We frequently field questions about what Azure can [...]

I CNAME What You Did There
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I CNAME What You Did There

By Nick Taylor|2018-03-08T08:23:21+00:00November 29th, 2017|DNS, SQL|

Hi all! I have a tendency to blog about what I've been seeing in the field lately and for some reason SQL Always On Availability Group Installs have been coming [...]

The Case of the Crashing Hyper-V Nodes
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The Case of the Crashing Hyper-V Nodes

By Nick Taylor|2018-10-30T06:50:59+00:00October 4th, 2017|Hyper-V|

Hi again all! In this post I'll be discussing a recent case we worked on with a customer. They were experiencing stability issues on a newly upgraded 5 node 2016 [...]

Creating a RAMDisk in Server 2016 for IO Benchmarking

By Nick Taylor|2017-03-16T13:59:26+00:00March 16th, 2017|Uncategorized|

Hi Again everyone! This post I'll be showing some PowerShell commands for creating a RAMDisk. Recently I was engaged at a client site where we were baking off Hyper-V vs [...]

Server 2016 In Place Upgrade

By Nick Taylor|2017-02-01T15:31:51+00:00February 1st, 2017|Hyper-V, Uncategorized|

Hi again everyone! This post I'm going to comment on few recent times I've relied on the in place upgrade feature of Server 2016 from Server 2012 R2. The wizard [...]

Blog The Case of NIC Teaming VS Sysprep

By Nick Taylor|2016-12-28T14:41:12+00:00December 28th, 2016|Hyper-V, PowerShell|

Hello again all and I hope everyone had a great set of Holidays! Today I'll be blogging about an incident I ran across with sysprep on a bare metal host. [...]

VLAN Tagging in VMM Made Easy

By Nick Taylor|2016-11-17T14:23:34+00:00November 17th, 2016|Hyper-V|

Hi again all! In this blog post I wanted to cover VLAN tagging inside of Virtual Machine Manager. Specifically touching on how to bypass a one to one relationship for [...]

Server 2016 Container Basics

By Nick Taylor|2016-10-05T14:27:49+00:00October 5th, 2016|Hyper-V|

Hi again all! With the recent announcement of Server 2016 going GA I decided it was finally time for me to start to understand containers. The first thing I wanted [...]

The Case of the Pausing Hyper-V Cluster Nodes

By Nick Taylor|2016-08-17T13:56:52+00:00August 17th, 2016|Hyper-V|

Hi all, For my first blog post over here at Model I figured I’d pass on an interesting issue I ran across a few weeks ago. I was investigating what [...]