Hot off the Citrix presses is a very thorough solution design document, called Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 on Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform. Whew, that's a quite a mouthful. What is it? It's a document, nearly 100 pages long, detailing how to deploy both Citrix VDI...
This is part 2 of the VSS Labs vCert Manager installation and configuration series. In Part 1 we got vCert Manager installed, and secured with a trusted SSL certificate. In this section we will get into the nuts and bolts configuration and start replacing certificates. vCert Manager Configuration 1. First...
Last August I wrote a blog post about this great new VMware SSL tool by VSS Labs called vCert Manager, which replaces many of your VMware SSL certificates all from the comfort of a nice GUI. It's a full certificate lifecycle management tool for VMware vSphere and related components. For...
Since joining Nutanix I've had the opportunity to get exposed to Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2, as our platform supports the three most common hypervisors: VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, and KVM. I'm now embarking on writing some Hyper-V guides for Nutanix, and wanted a way to leverage my existing ESXi 5.5 Nutanix...
Earlier this year the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability came to light, and many products from many different vendors were affected. Heartbleed is a very serious vulnerability, and you should conduct a thorough audit to validate all of your software and hardware components are not affected. My bet is that many of...
A couple of months ago when upgrading one of my Nutanix clusters to vSphere 5.5 U1 I started to see what appeared to be random loss of connection to my NFS datastores. All VMs on the datastores would become inaccessible, then a few minutes later, access would be restored. As...
Session: DCIM-B395 Building a Web-Scale Private cloud (without losing your cool) by Steve Poitras, Nutanix (@StevenPoitras). This was a good session showing how the combination of the Windows Azure pack, Hyper-V, and Nutanix enable large scale-out private clouds. You can check out the full video and slide deck of the session here on...
Session DCIM-B368: Malware hunting with Sysinternals Tools. This was a great session by Mark Russinovich on how to use his Sysinternals tools to find and rid your system of malware. He had a number of demos showing exactly how his tools find, and then can be used to remove the...
Session DCIM-B386: Mark Russinovich and Mark Minasi on Cloud Computing. Mark and Mark are probably easily the top two speakers each year at TechEd. Between their delivery style and technical content, you can't beat them. This session had zero slides, and was more of a Q&A format. Minasi asked Russinovich...
Session: DCIM-B349. Software defined storage with Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2. This was a jam packed session with tons of content on each slide. Great in-depth talk about what's new in the 2012 R2 wave which came out last year. I only captured 25% of the...
Session: DCIM-B344, Network Turning for Specific Workloads. This was a great session, with a ton of Q&A during and after the main presentation was over. I'd highly encourage you to watch the full video on Channel 9 when it is uploaded to get all of the goodies. The session notes...
Session: WIN-B323 Deploying Windows 8.1 in the Enterprise This was a high level session by two Dell employees covering some tips about deploying Windows 8.1 in the enterprise. OSD Planning and Reference Build Application compatibility: Antivirus, third party encryption, Office (32-bit or 64-bit), IE enterprise mode Enterprise Mode in IE...