This is a step-by-step guide on how to setup a minimal Storage Spaces direct cluster on virtual machines running on Vmware workstation. It is also meant to enlighten people abit about the functionality which Microsoft is coming with and what it is lacking at the moment. Important thing to remember about Storage Spaces Direct it …
Setting up Storage Spaces Direct on Windows Server 2016 TP3 Read More »
With the slow demise of HTTP, there is a new kid on the block HTTP/2, Which I have blogged about earlier from a Netscaler point of view https://msandbu.wordpress.com/2015/07/03/citrix-netscaler-and-support-for-next-generation-web-traffic-protocols-like-spdy-http2/ In the upcoming server release from Microsoft, IIS 2016 will be the first IIS release that supports HTTP/2, it is enabled by default from TP3 (All we …
Setting up HTTP/2 support on IIS server 2016 & Citrix Storefront Read More »
A while back I blogged about Veeam Endpoint https://msandbu.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/veeam-endpoint-backup-a-new-free-backup-solution-for-computers-and-physical-servers/ while it is aimed at Physical computers / servers it has another purpose that I just discovered. In Azure, Microsoft has currently a preview feature called Azure VM backup, which in essence is a image based backup of virtual machines in Azure. Now since this currently …
Virtual Machine backup in Azure using Veeam Endpoint Read More »
Among all the new updates announced at Vmware, Nvidia made one of their own. Nvidia announced that GRID 2.0 architecture is going to be released on September 15th. http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-grid-2-0-launches-with-broad-industry-support This is a huge improvement and opens up for a lot of opportunities, this GRID 2.0 architecture is built upon the latest Maxwell GPU architecture, which …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Implenenting Containers on Windows Server 2016 and running IIS Read More »
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 …
Getting started with Docker Containers on Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 Read More »
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 …
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. …
Hyper-V and Storage features deep-dive comparison with Nutanix Read More »
