Server 2016 In Place Upgrade

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesHi 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 specifically calls out the fact that fresh installs are the...

Blog The Case of NIC Teaming VS Sysprep

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutesHello 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.  We were attempting to deploy out a new 4 Node Hyper-V 2012 cluster.  Our...

VLAN Tagging in VMM Made Easy

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutesHi 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 a VLAN to a VMNetwork.  This relationship is really useful when...

Server 2016 Container Basics

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutesHi 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 to accomplish was to have a high level understanding of what a...

The Case of the Pausing Hyper-V Cluster Nodes

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesHi 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 was presented as an unhealthy 4 node Hyper-V cluster.  The symptoms were that 2 of the...