Having heard the buzz about Cloudphysics I decided to take it for a test drive, since they have a free edition which gives some limited options but it allows me to see how the software works. Cloudphysics is almost pure SaaS solution. It requires that we first download an virtual appliance that communicates against vCenter […]
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Today Microsoft released their G-series instances in Azure. This new instance is using a newer Intel Xeon based CPU and also with local SSD disk. “G-Series VM Sizes availability Today, we’re announcing the General Availability release of a new series of VM sizes for Azure Virtual Machines called the G-series. G-series sizes provide the most
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For those working with Netscaler, I often stumple across those that don’t size packet engines properly on Netscaler VPXs. By default, when deploying a Netscaler VPX is comes 2 vCPU and 2 GB memory. Of those 2 vCPU one is used for management purposes and the second vCPU is used for packet flow. It handles
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I’m getting a lot of search words on my blog regarding “Lync and Netscaler setup” “load balancing Lync” “Lync and HA Netscaler” “Lync and Reverse proxy”. Probably because I have alot of content around Netscaler. But anyways to answer the question, can we use Netscaler to do all these things ? Load balancing, high-availability and
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Had some issues today when setting up vWorkspace foglight against SQL Server 2012 R2, whatever I tried I always to the error message Invalid Object name “trace_xe_action_map” The problem is that SQL Server 2012 R” changed the trace_xe_action_map from dbo. to sys. In order to fix this we need to run a script on the
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Already in 2015! can’t belive how time flies… Well anyway back to blogging, and im starting the year with trying out Unidesk Tech Preview for Hyper-V. For those that aren’t familiar with Unidesk, the focus on desktop layering for VDI, so what does that mean ? * Desktop provisining * Application Layering * Image Management
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Well almost the last post, one more to go. And this might be interesting for many and is not that known yet. A couple of months ago Microsoft launched the beta of MSCE Enterprise Devices and Apps https://borntolearn.mslearn.net/b/weblog/archive/2014/11/17/announcing-a-new-mcse-enterprise-devices-and-appsThis is a new certification title that aims on Configuration Manager specialists and with knowledge of MAP, USMT,
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This might just be my last post in 2014. I have already gotten several requests to write this study guide therefore I wanted to share it before the end of 2014. The exam 70-534 is another Azure exam which is more focused on the architecting side of Azure. The exam is currently in beta but
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On 20th of October this year Microsoft and Dell announced the coming of their new platform Cloud Platform Systems. ( oddly enough just two months after VMware announced EVO:RAIL and EVO:RACK) This platform is aimed at customers that want a fully functional private cloud offering, or even hosting providers that want a fully tested, validated
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It has been quite a year, as I look back at it at the end of the year, I see that there has been a lot of new interesting technology emerging. One of the hot topic that has been in my head for quite some time is SD (Software defined) and Converged infrastructure/hardware. Now there
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