October 2015

Pin-to-SSD Nutanix EOS 4.5

So earlier today I was looking at the Pin to SSD video from Andre Leibovici , shown here –> http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=7334 and figured I wanted to give this feature a spin.. But no matter where I looked I didn’t find the same feature within Prism, luckily thanks to the twitter gods I got in touch with …

Pin-to-SSD Nutanix EOS 4.5 Read More »

Setting up Operations Manager for Nutanix

Nutanix has a management pack available for several monitoring solutions such as Solarwinds, Nagios and of course Operations Manager, which allows us to monitor hardware / DSF / hypervisor directly into Operations Manager. Now combining this with the service management capabilities that Operations Manager has is a killer combo. Now the setup is pretty simple …

Setting up Operations Manager for Nutanix Read More »

Configuration Manager and Easy Servicing

Now with the later releases of Configuration Manager Microsoft has introduced something called Easy Servicing which allows for updates to be automatically installed and updated within an enviroment. Now there have been some major updates to Configuration Manager already such as https://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn965439.aspx#BKMK_TP3Update TP3, Build 1509 and Build 1510. For those that have tried the Easy …

Configuration Manager and Easy Servicing Read More »

Optimizing a crappy web application using Citrix Netscaler

So I have had the pleasure of setting up optimizing of a crappy web application over the last couple of days. This particular web application had the following properties Bound to port 8080 401 based Authentication enabled URL Absolutes Alot of jibber in the Code Default page is hardcoded to a specific URL (Which we …

Optimizing a crappy web application using Citrix Netscaler Read More »

Deep dive Framehawk (From a networking perspective)

Well Citrix has released Framehawk with support for both enterprise WLAN and remote access using Netscaler. In order to setup Framehawk for remote access you need to basically one thing (Enable DTLS) and of course SSL certificate rebound) DTLS is an TLS extenstion on UDP. So basically means that Framehawk is a UDP protocol. So …

Deep dive Framehawk (From a networking perspective) Read More »

New Azure backup “agent”

Today I was notified of a new Azure backup agent which was released on Azure and on the download center. As of recently Microsoft did not have support for backing up on-premises Sharepoint, SQL, Exchange, Hyper-V and Azure Backup was limited to files and folders. Now if we go into the Azure portal we can …

New Azure backup “agent” Read More »

Scroll to Top