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Software-defined networking difference between VXLAN and NVGRE

Myself being quite in the starting phase of software-defined networking and all the different network virtuliazation technologies out there, I thought I would do a summurization between the largest different vendors in this market. What differenciates them (from a protocol perspective) and why on earth would we use them ? First of, network virtualization is […]

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Setting up NFS Direct Veeam against Nutanix cluster

So the last couple of days I have tried to wrap my head around Direct NFS support which is coming in Veeam v9. The cool thing about this feature is that Veeam has a custom built NFS agent, which will go directly to the NFS share (only needs READ access) and export the snapshot data

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New Netscaler books available!

Just a small post about what I have been busy with lately For those who have been following me on Twitter/LinkedIn/Blog notice that I from time to time blog about Netscaler which kinda has become my little baby.Anyhow… 2 years back I started working on my second book for Packt Publishing called Netscaler VPX, which

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Putting ThinWire and Framehawk to the test!

Framehawk and Thinwire – It’s all about the numbers Recently me and Mikael @mikael_modin attended a Citrix User Group Conference in Norway, where Mikael held a session regarding when and when to use Framehawk, you can read his entire blogpost here –> http://bit.ly/1PV3104 and I have already done some details regarding Framehawk from a networking

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Enterprise Data Protection policy options in Microsoft Intune

Now earlier this week, Microsoft released their enterprise data protection feature within Microsoft Intune. I have blogged about this earlier here –> https://msandbu.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/whats-actually-new-in-windows-10/ But it is a security feature which allows us to filter data based upon if it is private data or buisness data. We will be able to define 4 different levels of

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Office365 on Terminal Servers done right

So this is a blogpost based upon a session I had at NIC conference, where I spoke about how to optimize the delivery of Office365 in a VDI/RSDH enviroment. There are multiple stuff we need to think / worry about. Might seem a bit negative, but that is not the idea just being realistic So

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Enabling file-level restore on Nutanix in NOS 4.5.1

Ever since I heard that this feature was included in 4.5 I was eager to give it a spin, but since it is still in TP It was difficult to find any particular documentation regarding the feature, the only mention was in the release notes and some blog posts I found. Now since it was

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Pin-to-SSD Nutanix EOS 4.5

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

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Getting Started With Nutanix and PowerShell

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

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Setting up Operations Manager for Nutanix

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

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