27 octobre 2011

had to stay away from technology after being overwhelmed at VMworld last week. Now that I am back to senses, I had to point out the coolest tool that I saw at VMworld. Tintri blew me away from the get go. They were very professional all along the process. They contacted me before the conference to setup an appointment and scheduled  demo for me while I was there. This one was important as Duncan himself spoke very highly of the product. I was in for a surprise. Not really being a storage guy myself,... [Lire la suite]

Attention !! Ce séminaire est destiné à une population technique déjà familiarisée avec les technologies VMware.   Rejoignez les experts du support VMware pour un séminaire d’une journée sur le dépannage des produits Vmware le mardi 8 novembre 2011. Vous aurez l’opportunité de recevoir les dernières nouvelles concernant les produits VMware et de découvrir les astuces de l’équipe technique du centre de support international de Cork en Irlande.Inscrivez-vous dès aujourd’hui et indiquez nous quelles présentations vous... [Lire la suite]

Citrix has released version 5 of VDI-in-a-Box, the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution targeted at SMB’s it acquired after taking over Kaviza in May this year.   VDI-in-a-Box offers an all-in-one VDI solution that doesn’t require shared storage and dedicated load balanced connection brokers. Customers just have to deploy the virtual appliance on their hypervisor of choice and they are ready to go. This version is the follow-up of version 4.1 which was released in April this year. -->... [Lire la suite]

uring VMworld Europe, which was held in Kopenhagen last week, VMware announced the upcoming release of 2 products which itacquired from Shavlik Technolgies in May this year. The first product is VMware Go Pro, which VMware jointly developed with Shavlik. Go Pro is a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering which can be used to manage on-premises vSphere Hypervisors and their VMs and physical machines from a single pane of glass and is targeted for SMBs. The product is available in two editions, the free to use Go version... [Lire la suite]

VMware has updated its View client for the iPad to version 1.2, introducing support for iOS 5 and Airplay. The View client can be used to connect to connect to a Windows Virtual Desktop running on top of VMware View, the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution from VMware.   The product provides the following new features: Optimized for VMware View 5 with improved performance Support for iOS 5 including AirPlay Presentation Mode for use with external display and AirPlay Embedded RSA soft token simplifies... [Lire la suite]

In this article we will look in some detail at the new features for offloading storage workloads to the SAN array. This is called VAAI – vStorage APIs for Array Integration and enables the ESXi host to hand over some work to the SAN which the SAN array might be best at doing. VAAI was introduced in vSphere 4.1 and had three offload features, called primitives, and in 5.0 another option was added for VMFS. We access the VMFS file system by block based methods, i.e. Fibre Channel or iSCSI and as we shall see this... [Lire la suite]

Usually we’re using tools like Network Monitor, various text file parser, Procmon, Windbg… to solve ISA/TMG cases every day in and out in Microsoft Customer Service & Support. Sometimes we also use Excel to be able to filter the exported Firewall or Web Proxy Logs our customers send to us, e.g. only display traffic for a specific Client IP or for a specific rule. Some time ago I realized that there’s another quite powerful feature of Excel, which I didn’t connect with analyzing network traffic before, but more with things like... [Lire la suite]

Grand merci à Richard Hicks pour son billet sur le slipstream de TMG SP2. Je confirme, ca va réellement plus vite, surtout quand on a une ferme à installer. --> A voir sur le site : http://danstoncloud.com/blogs/simplebydesign/archive/2011/10/24/slipstream-de-tmg-sp2.aspx   

DMT, ca fait longtemps que je le pratique (NT4 vers Windows 2000). A force, on ne réfléchit même plus et on déroule.  L’outil n’a pas vraiment changé, donc j’ai déroulé jusqu’à tenter de migrer mon premier poste de travail Windows XP, avec une surprise : “ERR3:7075 Failed to change domain affiliation, hr=800704f1 The system detected a possible attempt to compromise security. Please ensure that you can contact the server that authenticated you.”   Après quelques recherches, je confirme, ADMT n’a pas beaucoup changé. Pour... [Lire la suite]

A question I got today by email is to list the steps to change the OWA 2010 timeout values. The exchange admin who had sent me the email knows that when a user selects “public computer” in the OWA session, the timeout is 15 minutes by default and 8 hours if “private computer” is selected. He wanted to change the public timeout to be 8 hours as well. Though it is not recommended to have long timeouts for public sessions, below are the steps. To make any changes to the OWA 2010 timeout (public or private), it is a registry edit on the... [Lire la suite]