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Citrix Topics
With Citrix Synergy and Summit in full swing this week, I’ve decided to drop a few resources here. Looking forward to seeing what Avalon/Excalibur bring to the big picture in desktop virtualization....
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Microsoft Server 2012 Tips
When I added a Server 2012 domain controller to my existing 2008 R2 domain at home, I found the UI to be painful and unnecessarily (ridiculously) difficult to use–especially for a server OS. I don’t...
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NetScaler
Since beginning to work with NetScaler in my home lab a few months ago, and subsequently getting some formal training, doing deeper lab work, and exploring NetScaler’s capabilities more, I’ve become a...
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VMware Horizon View 5.2 First Take
Last week I had the privilege of upgrading a customer’s sizable vSphere 5.0 and View 5.1 environment to 5.1 and 5.2, respectively. The experience was valuable, as it provided the chance to provision...
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vShield Manager Grief–and Resolution
A while back I deployed vShield Manager 5.0.1 and vShield Endpoint for a customer, to support Trend Micro Deep Security as part of a VMware View project. Just recently I added four new Cisco UCS B200M3...
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Another vShield Endpoint “Gotcha”
While installing vShield Endpoint and Trend Micro Deep Security virtual appliances on another 20 hosts this week, I ran into a situation I hadn’t seen before–and this one didn’t have the usual...
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Cisco UCS eNIC Driver Installation in a Boot-from-iSCSI Configuration
Last week I had the dubious pleasure of configuring boot-from-iSCSI in a Cisco UCS environment with four B200M3 blade servers and NetApp storage. The Cisco documentation is not exactly crystal clear,...
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iSCSI Boot from SAN with Cisco UCS
Configuring Fibre Channel boot-from-SAN is tricky. iSCSI boot-from-SAN is similar, but has additional considerations. Boot-from-SAN with iSCSI storage is more involved than FC boot-from-SAN, and much...
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Trend Micro Deep Security Manager 9 (or 8): Replacing the SSL Certificate
Trend Micro Deep Security Manager (DSM) is finicky when it comes to SSL. It uses the Tomcat web server, and its associated Java certificate keystore methodology (which I don’t understand very well),...
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Downgrading VMware Tools for ESXi VMs
On a freshly built environment (a FlexPod) running vSphere 5.5 Update 1, I ran into an issue with Citrix XenDesktop 7.1. Provisioning desktops using MCS worked fine for machine catalogs without...
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