Now Citrix has for a long time, support for most of the different hypervisors. Meaning that customers gets the flexibility to choose a number of different hypervisors if they are planning to use XenApp/XenDesktop. This support is also included for Netscaler as well. So as of today, Citrix supports XenServer, Hyper-V, Vmware, Amazon, Cloudplatform. As […]
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I have previosly blogged about Unidesk layering technology earlier this year, https://msandbu.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/unidesk-tech-preview-for-hyper-v/ then it was about Hyper-V support and how it operated. Then at Microsoft ignite this year I was introduced to a new version which enabled Azure Support. Then I was like WTF? You guys do that?? and yes they do, it was released
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So since TP3 was released yesterday, I have been quite busy trying to implement Containers on top of a Hyper-V host. Now Microsoft has been kind as enough to give us a simple Contain Image which makes the first part pretty easy. In order to deploy Container we need a container host. The easiest way
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So TP3 was released earlier today (about 1 hour ago), as an image on Azure, and I have been able to spend quite alot of useful minutes on it and more specificaly on Containers. TP3 is the first release that supports Native containers. Now Containers can be added to TP3 as a feature, by running
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In the latest release of Netscaler, which came on friday (download link here — https://t.co/nAf5V6NXB8 ) Citrix now enables for Framehawk usage over Remote Access (AKA ICA Proxy) there are only a few small steps needed in order to deploy Framehawk on Citrix Enable DTLS on The vServer Gateway (Recipie for enabling DTLS can be
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So another blogpost in this storage series with Hyper-V, in the previous posts I discussed a bit about what features Hyper-V has and the issues with them. Well time to take that to the next level. Just to show how Nutanix solves the performance issues and how Microsoft does it with their Windows Server features.
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Microsoft finally released a new solutions pack to Operations Management suite the other day, which I have been waiting for since Ignite! WireData!!! This is an solution pack that gathers meta data about your network, it requires a local agent installed on your servers as with other solution packs but allows you to get more
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It has been a bit quiet here lately (well there has been some activity but not as noisy as it used to be) therefore I decided to give a quick update to tell everyone what’s going on for my part. At the moment I’m quite busy writing two books! that’s right two! One is an
In my previous blog post I discussed a bit about software defined options using Hyper-V https://msandbu.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/software-defined-storage-options-for-hyper-v/ and that Windows Server is getting alot of good built-in capabilities but lacks the proper scale out solution with performance, which is also something that is coming with Windows Server 2016. Now one of the vendors which I talked
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As I see that Hyper-V gaining more and more traction, I also see that we are in the need for better storage solutions around it. Now Microsoft has Storage Spaces which came in 2012 and introduces features like Dedup as well. Problem with the deduplication feature is that it was mostly aimed at VDI enviroments
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