03 Mar 2015
By Yendis Lambert

Vote For The Best Virtualization Blogs at vSphere-Land.com

VMware
Every year Eric Siebert creates a list of all the great virtualisation blogs that are created and constantly updated.  This event allows the community to vote for the best blogs out there.  As you can imagine running one of these blogs takes time and plenty of effort to make sure the content is relevant. So now that you’ve arrived at my site and reading this blog post please take the time to vote for my site "Northtech Consulting (Yendis Lambert)" using the link below.    Thank you for taking the time to vote
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24 Feb 2015
By Yendis Lambert

vSphere 6 Feature Walkthroughs

VMware
Explore the features of VMware vSphere 6, the industry-leading server virtualization platform that lets you virtualize applications with confidence. vCenter Server Install - This series provides to instructions on installing various vCenter 6.0 components.  vCenter Server Upgrades- Seamlessly upgrade from from vCenter Server and vCenter Server 5.x versions to version 6.0 with these walkthroughs. vSphere Data Protection - With this set of walkthroughs, learn how to perform vital activities that vSphere Data Protection 6.0 enables you to carry out. vSphere Replication - With these walkthroughs, learn how configure replication and recover a virtual machine.  
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19 Feb 2015
By Yendis Lambert

PernixData and Citrix Xendesktop

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Citrix XenDesktop mobilizes and secures Windows desktops so users can access them from any device. This reduces desktop costs, while maximizing control of content.  However, Citrix XenDesktop is very sensitive to latency. The slightest delay (or variations in delay) can cause poor and/or inconsistent desktop performance.  This makes storage bottlenecks a big threat to the success of XenDesktop deployments.  PernixData FVP™ software eliminates storage bottlenecks, making it a perfect complement to Citrix XenDesktop. By moving storage intelligence into hosts where the XenDesktop VMs reside, FVP lowers VDI latency by 10x–even under peak loads. In addition, FVP provides a cost-effective way…
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14 Feb 2015
By Yendis Lambert

Virtualized Hadoop Performance with VMware vSphere® 6 on High-Performance Servers

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Large advances have been made in hardware and every level of the software stack since the virtualized Hadoop tests published in April 2013. This paper shows how to take advantage of these advances to achieve maximum performance. The cluster size remains at 32 two-processor 2U hosts; however, the processor, memory, network, and storage capabilities are all roughly doubled from those reported in the earlier paper. The performance of native and several VMware vSphere® 6 virtualized configurations were compared using the same TeraSort application suite as before. It was found that the more powerful hosts give a larger advantage to multi-VM…
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14 Feb 2015
By Yendis Lambert

VMware vSphere Replication 6.0

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VMware vSphere® Replication™ is a virtual machine data protection and disaster recovery solution. It is fully integrated with VMware vCenter Server™ and VMware vSphere Web Client, providing host-based, asynchronous replication of virtual machines. vSphere Replication is a proprietary replication engine developed by VMware that is included with VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit and higher editions of VMware vSphere, VMware vSphere with Operations Management™ editions, and VMware vCloud® Suite editions. vSphere Replication use cases • Data protection and disaster recovery within the same site and across sites • Data center migration • Replication engine for VMware vCloud Air™ Disaster Recovery •…
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12 Feb 2015
By Yendis Lambert

Citrix CloudBridge Overview

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Citrix CloudBridge™ provides a unified platform that connects and accelerates applications and optimizes bandwidth utilization between branch offices and enterprise data centers and public clouds.  As the only WAN optimization solution with integrated, secure and transparent cloud connectivity, CloudBridge allows enterprises to augment their data centers with the infinite capacity and elastic efficiency provided by public clouds. CloudBridge delivers superior application performance and user experience for branch and mobile workers through a broad base of features, including: Unique enhancements for the Citrix Xendesktop user experience Secure, optimized networking between clouds Acceleration of traditional enterprise applications Unparalleled visibility into per-application performance…
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11 Feb 2015
By Yendis Lambert

Leveraging NIC Technology in VMware vSphere

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VMware vSphere® is constantly evolving to add many new features and functionality to incorporate the latest technology, and one area of this trend is network performance. vSphere supports a variety of network interface controllers (NICs). Each NICs primary job is to deliver packets in and out of the host; however, NICs also include technology that vSphere can leverage to perform network transfer faster and more efficiently. This technical white paper examines scenarios of virtual machines sending and receiving network traffic across different hosts and how vSphere can take advantage of the NIC technology to improve network performance in a vSphere…
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10 Feb 2015
By Yendis Lambert

Remotely Enable Remote Desktop via Powershell

Microsoft
I've been working on project recently for a customer and needed to remotely enable remote desktop on several servers but they were located in a dark datacentre and there was no console access available.  I know you can always enable this by editing the registry but this requires a server reboot which was not an option for me.  So I decided to have a look at Powershell and found that the following commands enabled remote desktop without the need for a reboot. (Get-WmiObject Win32_TerminalServiceSetting -Computername ServerNameHere -Namespace root\cimv2\TerminalServices).SetAllowTsConnections(1,1) | Out-Null (Get-WmiObject -Class “Win32_TSGeneralSetting” -Computername ServerNameHere -Namespace root\cimv2\TerminalServices -Filter “TerminalName=’RDP-tcp'”).SetUserAuthenticationRequired(0) | Out-Null
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07 Feb 2015
By Yendis Lambert

vExpert 2015 Award – Third Year Running

VMware
The vExpert 2015 Announcement has been made by VMware and I'm honoured and pleased to say I have been awarded the accolade for the third year running. I would like the thank Cory (@vCommunityGuy) and the team at VMware for all their hard work vetting the individuals that apply. Looking forward to working with many vExperts and attending the many VMware events throughout 2015.
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