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 …
With more and more of the web moving away from the tradisional HTTP 1/1 and moving towards the use of HTTP/2 and/or SPDY. More and more web servers also now by default supporting HTTP/2 or SPDY. For instance LinkedIn now uses SPDY and most web browsers support this feature. Now SPDY offers the following benefits …
Now after been dabling with Azure Stack for some time since the preview, there has been one thing that has been bugging me, which is the networking flow. Hence I decided to create an overview of the network topology and how things are connected and how traffic flow is. Important to remember that Azure Stack …
Azure Stack networking overview and use of BGP and VXLAN Read More »
So today I was asked to help troubleshoot an issue where an customer had setup a new pair of NetScaler MPXs which was setup using LACP and different VLANs, after the initial setup and started with a basic load balancing setup for Storefront 3.1, stuff were not working. The service was working as it should, …
The case of the HTTP traffic not working NetScaler Read More »
