After speaking with Stephen Vilke (One of the brains behind Framehawk) the other day, he elaborated on what Framehawk actually is and what it actually isn’t. You know I have been caught up thinking about Framehawk as a simple display protocol and ran a bunch of comparisons between it and ThinWire and also with PCoIP …
Earlier today I saw on a couple of blogspost that Vmware was going to announce Horizon 7 later today. So when I read the posts I was blown away in what type of features that are coming in the release. So what’s included in the upcoming release? Project Fargo (VMFork) which in essence the ability …
So this is a blogpost which is mostly about the session I had on NIC this year, where I held this presentation. Where I talked about different technologies from the app-virt and app-layering landscape and discussed the benefits / cons using these types of products. In these days alot of buisnesses are virtualizing their applications. …
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So this is a blogpost based upon a session I had at NIC conference, where I spoke about how to optimize the delivery of Office365 in a VDI/RSDH enviroment. There are multiple stuff we need to think / worry about. Might seem a bit negative, but that is not the idea just being realistic So …
Been working alot with different layering technologies these days and since I have an upcoming presentation on Appvirt vs Applayering, I decided it wasa time to write a blogpost about Vmware AppVolumes. Now Vmware AppVolumes (formerly known as CloudVolumes) is a piece of layering technology. This technology uses VHD attach and uses a filter drive …
Some questions that come up again and again are advanced backup features in Hyper-V using Veeam. How does Veeam take backup from a Hyper-V host? in a simple day to day virtual machine life, the read & writes consist of I/O traffic from a virtual machines to a VHD/VHDX. Residing on a network share. SAN/SMB …
Advanced backup options for Hyper-V 2012 R2 on Veeam Read More »
So when creating a delivery group in Studio you have limited capabilities into how we can control who gets access to a certain delivery group or application. NOTE This is not using Smart Access on the Netscaler, this is purely a Citrix Studio feature . We have for instance filtering on users And after we …
Hiding and publishing applications using XenDesktop 7.7 and Powershell Read More »
Now part two of my Azure Stack and Infrastructure story. Now Microsoft is doing a big leap in the Azure Stack release. With the release the current setup is moving towards more use of software-defined solution which are included in Windows Server 2016. This includes features like micro segmentation, load balancing, VXLAN, storage spaces direct …
Well, Since the release of Azure Stack preview earlier today, I’ve been quite the busy bee… The only problem is that I didn’t have the adequate hardware to play around with it… Or so I thought.. I setup a virtual 2016 server on my Vmware Workstation. Added some SATA based disks since I know this …
Running Azure Stack on Vmware workstation nested Read More »
There is no denying that Microsoft Azure is a success story, from being the lame silverlight portal with limited capabilities that it was to become a global force to be reckoned with in the cloud marketspace. Later today Microsoft is releasing their first tech preview of their Azure Stack. Which allow us to bring the …
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