Backups are inarguably the single most important thing that any IT person can do for their organization. It matters little that you achieve 99.9999% uptime for six years, if on…
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Hold onto your hats, folks, because the way Veeam’s Instance Licensing works is an industry first. Veeam is focusing on creating more “portable” licensing for those who have hybrid- or…
Microsoft’s professed love of open source and Linux specifically is really starting to show in a real way with the upcoming new compatibility of Linux containers on Windows. First, code…
It’s always DNS. Anyone who has worked at Mirazon for more than a week can tell you that we say this phrase a LOT. Of course, I’m being a bit…
Customers frequently come to us for assistance when they are building a new virtualization cluster, or upgrading an existing one with what appears to be a very straightforward question: “How…
In the opening keynote for Ignite yesterday, Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2016 will be generally available by mid-October. The evaluation edition of the release to manufacturing (RTM) version is…
So, VMware workstation is dying… Or at least it appears that way. Apparently, VMware (conspiracy theories say VMware, under pressure from EMC, under pressure from Dell) basically killed the whole…
We’re getting close to the release of Windows Server 2016 (looking at early next year) and currently, we’re on the third iteration of the technical preview. One thing of note…
After many Bing searches for how to convert virtual machines when migrating from VMware to Hyper-V 2012, you are more confused than when you started. I found myself in the…
Hyper-V is Microsoft’s virtualization platform that allows you to run multiple virtual machines on one physical host. Hyper-V is by far the most exciting and game changing aspect of Server…
How to Build a Test Lab You may be wondering how the Engineers here at Mirazon stay on the bleeding edge of new technologies. With Windows 8.1 and Server 2012…
Hyper-V 2012 is great and completely viable for production environments. However, there are bits of information that aren’t easily obtainable from the graphical user interface (GUI) and it is a…