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Running Nutanix with Hyper-V – Things to consider and moving forward with Server 2016

Now Nutanix is one of the few HCI vendors out there that actually support Hyper-V so kudos for that! They’ve also joined the CPS club with their fininshed appliance shipment which comes with Azure Pack which is also one of the selected few partners out there. Now after having had alot of conversations with customers […]

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Test run of Teradici Cloud Access Software on Azure N-series

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that they were partnering with Teradici on their N-series virtual machine instances in Azure, which I’ve blogged about previously here –> http://msandbu.org/n-series-testing-in-microsoft-azure-with-nvidia-with-k80/ Teradici are the creators behind the PCoIP protocol, which its often leveraged in VMware Horizon View and supported by multple thin client vendors, which in most cases are

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New opportunities! Cloud Architect at Evry

So last year I switched jobs to Exclusive Networks here in Norway, which was distributor which focused on Nutanix, Arista, vArmour, AviNetworks, VMturbo as part of their BigTec portfolio and so on which was a looooong gap from my regular day-to-day work which focused on Microsoft, and ohhh boy did I learn a lot during

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XenDesktop 7.11 released! and testing with N-series in Azure using DDA

So last night, Citrix released XenDestkop 7.11 which now already supports Windows Server 2016! Which is now availble here –> https://www.citrix.com/downloads/xenapp-and-xendesktop/product-software/xenapp-and-xendesktop-711.htmlBut that not all! it has alot of new capabilities as well! XenDesktop 7.11:* Support for Hyper-V DDA * Support for Azure Resource Manager deployments (Which I have blogged about here –> http://msandbu.org/delivering-xendesktop-from-microsoft-azure-using-azure-resource-manager/ * When using

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Overview of Microsoft Operations Management Suite and comparison with SCOM

So you think you know all the features in OMS? Think again! So I’ve been working closely with OMS the last couple of years and to be honest I haven’t yet grasped how much features Microsoft has introduced over the last couple of years and more is coming! I have blogged already about some of

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Getting started with DataDog monitoring against Microsoft Azure

So after getting constantly bombarded with a sponsored tweet on my timelime for a while, I decided to take a hint and take a closer look at what DataDog actually was. So this post is actually just a small introduction to it. Now DataDog is a cloud based monitoring tool, so you can take it

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Backing up Offic365 email with Veeam Backup for Office365

So a couple of days back I publised that a lot has been going on in Veeam latelcy, and among the news that was published was support for Office365 Exchange backup! and as a Vangard Ive been lucky enough to been given access to the beta of the tool NOTE: This represents a beta and

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N-series testing in Microsoft Azure with NVIDIA

So I’ve been fortunate enough to been able to test-drive the N-series virtual machine instances in Microsoft Azure. For those who are not aware, the N-series is a GPU enabled series of virtual machines. Which can either be setup with a M60 (Which is the NV-series) or a K80 (Which is the NC-series) You can

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The next big thing from Veeam! Veeam Availability Platform

So Veeam has been busy lately and today they showed us what they have been working on with their platform! With the upcoming release of Veeam availabilty suite 9.5 (Which I’ve blogged about previously here –> http://msandbu.org/veeam-backup-and-replication-9-5-with-azure-and-windows-server-2016-support/ Veeam B&R (or Availbility suites) has always been aimed against virtualized enviroments, in order to become more agile

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NetScaler CPX Express released!

Up until now, I’ve been writing about the NetScaler CPX, but it actually comes in two editions! where one is a licensed edition and the other one is a free edition. NetScaler CPX which is a containerized version of the NetScaler and can run as a container on a container host such as Ubuntu for

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