Sometimes when setting up a new NetScaler and migrating virtual servers from an old one to another, it is quite often that one might forget to disable or shutdown older vServers. Now NetScaler has features to disable different network settings, so this post I want to explain what each option does. In a layer 2 […]
NetScaler and basic functions, status of vServers and ICMP ARP operations Read More »
There is alot of fuzz these days around hyperconverged, software defined storage etc.. especially since VMware announced VSAN 6.2 earlier this week, that trigge alot of good old brawling on social media. Since VMware was clearly stating that they are the marked leader in the HCI marked, if that is true or not I don’t
Storage Wars–HCI edition Read More »
So alas, it is here! This is something I have been working on for some time now, and my intention is that this is just the beginning of something bigger.. (Hopefully) For a couple of years now I have been writing for Packt Publishing and authored some books on NetScaler which has been a fun
Free eBook on Optimizing Citrix NetScaler and services Read More »
Yesterday, Microsoft released a public public of some tools that Jeffrey Snover showed of at Microsoft Ignite last year, which was in essence basically just Server manager from within the Azure portal. This tools is aimed for its first release to manage Windows Server 2016 servers, it can manage both Azure virtual machines and machines
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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
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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
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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.
Application virtualization vs Application layering Read More »
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
Office365 on Terminal server done right Read More »
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
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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 »
