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Running Nutanix with Hyper-V – Things to consider and moving forward with Server 2016

Leave a Comment / 24. September 2016

Now Nutanix is one of the few HCI vendors out there that actually support Hyper-V so kudos for that! They’ve also joined the CPS club with their fininshed appliance shipment which comes with Azure Pack which is also one of the selected few partners out there. Now after having had alot of conversations with customers …

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What is Microsoft doing with RDS and GPU in 2016? and what are VMware and Citrix doing?

Leave a Comment / 24. February 2016

So it was initially labed Server 2016, for then I forgot an important part of it, which ill come back to later. This year, Microsoft is most likely releasing Windows Server 2016 and with it a huge number of new features like Containers, Nano, SDN and so on. But what about RDS? Well Microsoft is …

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Hyper-V and Storage features deep-dive comparison with Nutanix

Leave a Comment / 4. August 2015

So another blogpost in this storage series with Hyper-V, in the previous posts I discussed a bit about what features Hyper-V has and the issues with them. Well time to take that to the next level. Just to show how Nutanix solves the performance issues and how Microsoft does it with their Windows Server features. …

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How Nutanix works with Hyper-V and SMB 3.0

Leave a Comment / 30. July 2015

In my previous blog post I discussed a bit about software defined options using Hyper-V https://msandbu.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/software-defined-storage-options-for-hyper-v/ and that Windows Server is getting alot of good built-in capabilities but lacks the proper scale out solution with performance, which is also something that is coming with Windows Server 2016. Now one of the vendors which I talked …

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Trouble with Hyper-V, Virtual Machine manager and XenClient

Leave a Comment / 28. August 2014

So in my Hyper-V enviroment all of hosts are administered by Virtual Machine Manager. The other day I needed to deploy Citrix XenClient to a hyper-v host (Since its the only hypervisor that is supported for the syncronizer part) Now by default when installing XenClient it sets up the TomCat service running on port 443. …

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Veeam Management pack for Hyper-V and Vmware walktrough

Leave a Comment / 23. July 2014

Yesterday, Veeam released their new management pack which for the first time includes support for both Vmware and Hyper-V. Now I have gotten a lot of questions regarding (Why have Hyper-V monitoring if Microsoft has it ?) well Veeam’s pack has alot more features included, such as capacity planning, heat maps and so on. The …

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Study resources 74-409 Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center

Leave a Comment / 19. November 2013

NOTE: This is work in progressNow its a long time made since I made any of these, but been busy Here is a new exam from Microsoft which just released earlier this november, this is the first Microsoft exam which contains Azure technology from an “it-pro” perspetive and it also contains stuff from the latest …

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Securing Hyper-V 2012R2 hosts and VMs

Leave a Comment / 1. August 2013

Microsoft has implemented a lot of new cool security features in Hyper-V on the 2012R2 release, and most importently statefull firewall and network inspection features. From the 2012 release, Microsoft introduced features like* ARP Guard https://msandbu.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/arp-guard-in-hyper-v-2012/* DHCP Guard * Router Guard(These three functions are also included in regular network devices from most vendors) The use …

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