For the last three years I have been working at a VAD (Value Add Distributor) in Norway called Commaxx, where my focus has been on Veeam/Microsoft/Citrix and also Dell the last year or so. My focus was on pre-sales, consultant, trainer among other things and has given me a real career boost on my part. …
So I recently got aware that Netscaler 11 has a serious bug that after a Netscaler is rebooted the PFX certificate is removed from the Netscaler http://discussions.citrix.com/topic/367451-server-certificate-lost-after-reboot-ns-110/ even if the config is saved. I decided to do a little digging on my lab enviroment, after imported a new PFX certificate with Pkey and attaching it …
Now with the release of Windows Server 2016, to many have been caught up with the support for Docker, Nano server and storage spaces direct. To many are missing out on what is the big investment that Microsoft is doing in WS2016, namely the networking stack! Which is also going to be a big part …
Well, this might be a bit of a misleading blogpost, and it is not aimed at critizing Azure, but mearly a post which aims to look at what I feel that Microsoft IaaS Azure is missing at this point. Now even thou Microsoft is doing alot of development work on Azure, much of it is …
What is Microsoft Azure IaaS missing at this point? Read More »
In 2012 Microsoft Introduced (Open Management Infrastructure) OMI which allows for standard based management across different platforms. As of now Microsoft is working with Cisco and Arista to port OMI to their network switches. And also with the latest version of PowerShell DSC we can also use DSC against OMI servers running on these switches, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
