Had a customer case where they had troubles with ICA sessions being terminated when connecting via Netscaler. They had a regular MPX pair setup in HA which then serviced XenApp servers which were located on a cluster of Hyper-V hosts. These hosts were running Windows Server NIC teaming switch independent Dynamic mode. The Citrix sessions […]
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For those that have been working with Azure for some time there are some challenges with delivering enough performance for a certion application or workload. For those that are not aware Microsoft has put limits on max IOPS on disks which are attached to a virtual machine in Azure. But note these are max limits
Windows Azure and Storage performance Read More »
This is a typical question I get quite often, and therefore I decided to write a blogpost to get all the facts straight and talk a bit about the cons about running workloads in Azure and why it some cases is not possible or not the best option. But note there are many use cases
Can I run my workload in Azure? Read More »
There’s alot happening lately and therefore there has been a bit quiet here on this blog. But to give a quick update on what’s happening! In february I just recently got confirmation that I am presenting two session at NIC conference (Which is the largest IT event for IT-pros in scandinavia) (nicconf.com) Here I will
Upcoming events and stuff Read More »
Veeam has announced a couple of months back, Veeam Endpoint backup. This is a free solution for all which works for both physical servers and for regular Windows Computers. Now Since Veeam has always been working for a plain virtualization stack, we need to be aware that there are alot of differences between taking a
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So this was announced on Synergy earlier this year, and now just arrived in the first enhancement build which is downloadable from Citrix.com NOTE: There is only a VPX available for XenServer but there is a firmware available which works on regular VPX. So what is Admin Partitions? It is a kind of Role-based access
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During a new setup for a customer we were using the latest build from Storefront 2.6 and latest NS build 10.5 (53) to ensure that there are no bugs and so on. The pre-existing Storefront was setup using regular HTTP (Not recommended) but it should work just fine. After setting up Netscaler against Storefront and
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With the recent release of Veeam 8, I was exited to hear that Veeam also added support for Cloud Connect Against Azure. So Cloud Connect is a option for Veeam Cloud providers to offer off-site backup for their customers. So it requires that customers already have Veeam in place, but makes it easy for them
Veeam Cloud Connect for Microsoft Azure walkthrough Read More »
This is a quick post, but Citrix has published a workaround for the trouble they have with Netsacler loosing connectivity on Vmware with the latest update. You can find the workaround here –> http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX200278 This is only until Citrix manage to fix the issue and includes it in a newer build of Netscaler
Workaround for Netscaler VPX and VMware ESXi 5.5 Build 2143827 Read More »
So there is alot happening at Microsoft these days. I’ve had trouble my self keeping track what has happend the last weeks or so. Therefore I decided to write this blog to just get an overview myself what’s happend. Microsoft and Dell launch Cloud Platform Suitehttp://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/cloud-platform-system/ Azure: D-series virtual machine instanceshttps://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/new-d-series-of-azure-vms-with-60-faster-cpus-more-memory-and-local-ssd-disks Azure: Network security Groups,
