July 2016

Does data locality matter? My Perspective on Windows Server 2016 Storage Spaces Direct and RDMA

With the uprise in Hyperconverged technology it is interesting to see how the different vendors in the market has embraced different architectures in their implementation . I’ve previously blogged about how VMware, Microsoft and Nutanix has done this –> http://msandbu.org/storage-warshci-edition/ Now therefore I decided to dig a bit deeper into the way Microsoft has implemented …

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Overview of Azure Active Directory, Subscriptions, Accounts & Role based access control

So in the beginning there was nothing! Venturing in Azure these days, you might lose the overview you once had and now with the introduction of Azure RBAC  and having multiple subscriptions, probably many Azure Active Directories, mixing Microsoft and Work accounts it might be confusing how it all blends together. So therefore I decided …

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Azure virtual machine speed test

When sizing an enviroment in Microsoft Azure it is important to remember what kind of performance you can expect from the different virtual machine instance types in Azure, because there are alot of different aspects you need to think about when setting up virtual machines. Now by default there are different instance types, which defines …

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Azure Stack as an turnkey solution is that the right approach from Microsoft?

Earlier last week it was announced that Azure Stack will be deliverd as a turnkey solution duing 2017 via Dell, HPE and Lenovo systems. Now this came as a disappointment to many that they now could not be able to run Azure Stack on their existing hardware, since many have started to look forward to …

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Using Citrix Cloud with Remote Access to Azure using NetScaler Gateway Services

Citrix has recently announced the public beta of a new cloud feature called NetScaler Gateway services. This feature is a Windows based NetScaler solution which allows remote access to a citrix enviroment using the windows server that has the cloud connector component installed. When setting up Citrix Cloud Apps services you need to install a …

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Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 With Azure and Windows Server 2016 support!

So with the upcoming release of Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 there are alot of new enhancements announced coming this way! Restore workloads directly to Azure (This is a feature which I’ve blogged about previosly, but has gained alot of enhancements in this build! first of, no need to deploy an appliance in Azure this …

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Delivering XenDesktop from Microsoft Azure using Azure Resource Manager

Last week, Citrix announced support for Microsoft Azure Resource Manager in XenDesktop. As of now this feature is only available in Citrix Cloud. Because Citrix has the common policy that features comes in Cloud first then on the on-premises deployment. Using Azure Resource manager the setup has been simplified alot!  My lab is quite simple …

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