Update (March 2017): After this post was created, Microsoft clarified that this promotion only applies to customers with an Enterprise Agreement (EA). If you don’t have an EA, then you …
Hardware Compatibility Lists (HCL) are an often overlooked, yet they are a very important part of any new deployment that you are attempting. There seems to be an erroneous pervasive …
UPDATE: VMware 6.5 (and VMFS 6.0) supports 512e drives as direct attached drives. vSphere & vSAN will expose 512 to Guest OS. However, VMware still does not support 4K. Read …
Have you ever run into an issue with Skype for Business that no matter how hard you look for an answer, you just can’t seem to find one? I found …
Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure is a new feature in Veeam Backup & Replication v9.5 that allows you to directly back up or replicate to Azure from your local on-premises …
Running Windows 10 with OneDrive Next Gen Sync client in a non-persistent VDI environment is challenging on the backend storage as well as on internet bandwidth. Essentially, OneDrive makes a …
VMware released vSphere 6.5 this week to a surprisingly low amount of fanfare, which is interesting because there are actually quite a few enhancements to functionality. Centralizing Features in vCenter …
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 …
Change Block Tracking (CBT) is a functionality in VMware that allows you to keep track of the changed blocks within your server (aptly named), which allows you to take smaller and more …
Storage Spaces has been around for many years in one form or another. The primitives for it started with Windows Home Server, which was built on SBS 2003. Since then, …
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 …
So you installed Veeam’s Endpoint Backup FREE on a physical system in your environment. Yes, it’s a FREE physical backup solution. You’re excited about the fact that you have a bare-bones …