So I have been eargly awaing the Vmware Horizon 7 release and with it also a new display protocol called Horizon Blast, which has been a huge improvement from the former protocol PCoIP, but it is still available as an option when setting up remote desktop groups in Horizon 7 as well. Now since I …
Remote protocols benchmarking, Citrix, VMware and RDP–Part One PCoIP vs Blast Extreme Read More »
As mentioned before I am currently working on a new eBook on NetScaler Gateway, based upon feedback on mail and some randon polls on Twitter. The ebook is good underway and is of now about 100+ pages. Don’t know yet how long the book is going to be, but again its a free ebook and …
New eBook project status–NetScaler Gateway deep-dive Read More »
Today Veeam annonced a new cool feature for all of us Microsoft Azure friends! So Veeam Direct Restore is a free virtual appliance from Veeam which delivers cloud restore options for Veeam Backup and replication and also for Veeam Endpoint backup. (Now remember even thou it is free you still need to pay Microsoft for …
So just a bit of advertisment for our upcoming event at Exclusive Networks here in Norway! On the 27th of May we are having a whole day event with topics about Software-defined datacenter, deep-dive cybersecurity and datacenter networking, interested? You can read more about it here –> http://bit.ly/1o135Q0 We have alot of the coolest vendors …
A bit for my norwegian followers! Club Exclusive Read More »
After I initially published my blogpost on Application Layering vs Application Virtualization, https://msandbu.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/application-virtualization-vs-application-layering/ I got more in-depth of the different technologies out there, and sure I didn’t cover all of them I just focused on the ones I found the most interesting. Now at this time when I was working on this type of technology …
Citrix has announced the move to more NFV and pushing the limits of NetScaler towards up to 100GBps on a single VPX (Yet to see) but since this was a hot topic a week back I decided to benchmark a VPX to see what it can actually deliver in terms of performance over SSL. Now …
So with Cisco and HP now accepting that HCI is now acceptable and with Cisco announcing their solution based upon Springpath last week and HP coming soon (already targeting Nutanix), and let us not forget VCE with the newly announced VXRAIL as well. It seems like everyone is jumping the boat for hyperconverged infrastructure these …
After dabbling around with AzureStack for some time I decided to see how easy it was to add custom resources to AzureStack marketplace so users themselves can provision virtual machines. As an example I choose XenDesktop (empty site with pre-installed SQL server) There are a few steps needed to actually do this. 1: Download Azure …
Create a custom resource in Azurestack marketplace example XenDesktop Read More »
After I’ve been dabling on a solution to try to fix a SSO solution between SAML and Citrix, I’ve been pretty much banging my head to the wall after trying out a bunch of different solutions. Then out of nowhere comes this along! Yay! Finally an solution to what I have been trying to do …
Setting up SAML authetication for NetScaler and Storefront with SSO Read More »
So the last couple of days I’ve been spending time wrapping myself up in some of the data availability features in the Nutanix platform. Now with Nutanix we have the possibility to setup local cluster snapshots schedules. We also have the option to define remote site snapshots (Which can either be a physical cluster or …
