So earlier today I was looking at the Pin to SSD video from Andre Leibovici , shown here –> http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=7334 and figured I wanted to give this feature a spin.. But no matter where I looked I didn’t find the same feature within Prism, luckily thanks to the twitter gods I got in touch with …
Now that I have my hands on some Nutanix hardware it was about time to play a little bit with the features that are available on the platform. All of the stuff we do in PRISM is linked to the REST API, Nutanix also has a PowerShell cmdlets which also leverages the REST API. Downloading …
Nutanix has a management pack available for several monitoring solutions such as Solarwinds, Nagios and of course Operations Manager, which allows us to monitor hardware / DSF / hypervisor directly into Operations Manager. Now combining this with the service management capabilities that Operations Manager has is a killer combo. Now the setup is pretty simple …
So I have been on a job hunt for some time now, and I’m quite picky on what job to take because of a lot personal stuff happening which has put alot of strain on me, and that moving two hours away from Oslo to the middle of nowhere in Norway makes thing much more …
New job! Systems Engineer at Exclusive Networks (BigTec) Read More »
Now with the later releases of Configuration Manager Microsoft has introduced something called Easy Servicing which allows for updates to be automatically installed and updated within an enviroment. Now there have been some major updates to Configuration Manager already such as https://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn965439.aspx#BKMK_TP3Update TP3, Build 1509 and Build 1510. For those that have tried the Easy …
So I have had the pleasure of setting up optimizing of a crappy web application over the last couple of days. This particular web application had the following properties Bound to port 8080 401 based Authentication enabled URL Absolutes Alot of jibber in the Code Default page is hardcoded to a specific URL (Which we …
Optimizing a crappy web application using Citrix Netscaler Read More »
Well Citrix has released Framehawk with support for both enterprise WLAN and remote access using Netscaler. In order to setup Framehawk for remote access you need to basically one thing (Enable DTLS) and of course SSL certificate rebound) DTLS is an TLS extenstion on UDP. So basically means that Framehawk is a UDP protocol. So …
Deep dive Framehawk (From a networking perspective) Read More »
Today I was notified of a new Azure backup agent which was released on Azure and on the download center. As of recently Microsoft did not have support for backing up on-premises Sharepoint, SQL, Exchange, Hyper-V and Azure Backup was limited to files and folders. Now if we go into the Azure portal we can …
There has been a lot of fuzz around storage spaces direct coming with Windows Server 2016, and I have been getting alot of questions around it lately. “Will it solve my storage issues?” “can we replace our existing SAN?” “When to choose SPD over SAN” and so on. Now as of right now, not all …
Comparison Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct and Nutanix Read More »
So it is going to be a busy couple of months ahead.. So this sums up what is happening on my part the next months. 28 – 30 October: At the annual Citrix User Group event in Norway, which is a crazy good conference, I will be speaking about using Office365 with Citrix and different …
