Nutanix I want to start with a little background of Nutanix. (Yes I used the information off their website) The Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform is a converged infrastructure solution that consolidates the compute (server) tier and the storage tier into a single, integrated appliance. Nutanix uses the same design principles and technologies that power IT… Read More »
The Life of a Troller 8am Life is good. I need to get up this morning and see who I can Troll. 9am (After the first cup of Java, etc.) Found the blog(s) of a people I used to work with and/or person that works for a former company. 9:30am Wow these post sucks. Lets… Read More »
VMware vCenter Installable vs. Appliance VMware vCenter Server Virtual Appliance (vCSA) is a VMware’s official VA that can be used as an alternative way to implement a full vCenter Server, instead to install on a Windows Server (that must be deployed first). Unlike the installable version, it does not need a Windows Server license and… Read More »
VLAN Trunk Between Cisco and HP Procurve switch In this example we are going to see how we can use Cisco and HP switches together for Vlan trunking. Before we get into details, let me describe the difference in ‘terms‘ using both in Cisco and HP. Description … Read More »
Warning: Do Not remove .NET 4.5 in Windows 2012. We had a programmer that was working in setting up a website with asp.net. Settings were not working the way they suspected. They decided to remove .NET 4.5 from the Windows 2012 R2 Server. Mental question… When you remove .NET 4.5 what else will be… Read More »
Fixed: Trust relationship in AD Have you seen this? ‘The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed’ Or this? ‘The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship.’ Same issue, different symptom. There are a number of reasons why this happens, but the main reason… Read More »
You’re in the middle of an executive presentation, tooting your TCO horn about the money that has been saved by moving to the cloud/hosted, then you click the remote desktop connection you swear you minimized 10 seconds ago and… Why is this happening? Network connections into your hosting company travels through security and availability… Read More »
Configure the Hosted Cache server The next step is to configure the host cache server, though you can implement Branchcache without this. In hosted cache mode we store the cache on a designated server in the branch office and clients can pick up cached content from here. On the server located in the branch office… Read More »
Let me give you a little ground work here to help you understand where I want to go with this post. Job Titles/roles: Professional titles are used to signify a person’s professional role or to designate membership in a professional society. The IT industry is well known for its wide range of job titles and aggrandizement of roles,… Read More »
Branchcache Server 2012 Install and Introduction Branchcache was introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 and it is a tool to reduce the impact of having low bandwidth between a branchoffice and a central file server. The short description would be that either a dedicated server, or the clients themselves, cache the content when a file is opened… Read More »