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14 Aug 2012
By Yendis

Cisco and VMware vlans

Cisco, VMware, ,
I have recently had a requirement whereby I needed to allow multiple vlans on a single cisco switch port (as I was running out of available switch ports) because of a business need.  Our current Cisco environment was only setup to allow one vlan per switch port as it’s configured for “switchport access vlan” instead of trunking. Note: - Before making any changes make sure you have the relevant underlining vlan’s setup on your Cisco switches. This is a typical switch port config we have setup. As you can see the switchport will only have access to vlan 10 description Server Ports  switchport access vlan 10…
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02 Aug 2012
By Yendis

Enterprise Vault Diagrams

Symantec,
Whether your are an architect, engineer, admin or a general IT Manager, you will almost certainly have had the need to document or make drawings of your Enterprise Vault environment. This might be to explain EV to other colleagues in your organisation or just to make things clearer to yourself, we all a know a picture is worth a thousand words and of course a pictorial view of anything can sometimes be easier to understand. The following link has diagrams that show many aspects of EV from an architecture, network and general process flow points of view and are available…
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22 Jul 2012
By Yendis

Understanding Citrix Receiver

Citrix
Do you know the difference between Receiver and Receiver Infrastructure? What about Receiver Enterprise, Receiver Inside or Receiver Updater? Did you hear about the upcoming One Receiver? Are you confused as most of my customer when it comes to that topic? Good because in this article I will try to explain the differences and the Citrix Receiver idea! The Idea of Citrix Receiver Before the release of Receiver, Citrix had various "Clients" for different reasons like the ICA Client, the Secure Access Gateway Client, Password Manager Client etc. with the tendency of more clients to come. Now if you are using…
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17 Jul 2012
By Yendis

vSphere 5.0 U1a was just released, vDS/SvMotion bug fixed!

VMware, ,
Many of you who hit the SvMotion / VDS / HA problem requested the hot patch that was available for it. Now that Update 1a has been released with a permanent fix how do you go about installing it? This is the recommended procedure: Backup your vCenter Database Uninstall the vCenter hot-patch Install the new version by pointing it to the database The reason for this is that the hot-patch increased the build number, and this could possibly conflict with later versions. And for those who have been waiting on it, the vCenter Appliance has also been update to Update 1 and now…
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09 Jul 2012
By Yendis

Windows Server 2012 Editions

Microsoft
Licensing Overview Windows Server 2012 delivers a dramatically simplified licensing experience. Shaped by feedback from customers and partners, the new Windows Server licensing approach will help make choosing the right Windows Server easier while delivering the following benefits. Simple It’s easier than ever to determine the right Windows Server edition for you. Choose from just four editions of Windows Server 2012, based on the size of your organization and your requirements for virtualization and cloud computing. Economical All editions of Windows Server 2012 deliver excellent economics and ROI for your business. For example, Datacenter edition with unlimited virtualization rights provides the…
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06 Jul 2012
By Yendis

Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi

VMware, ,
You can configure persistent scratch space for ESXi using the vSphere Client: Connect to vCenter Server or the ESXi host using the vSphere Client. Select the ESXi host in the inventory. Click the Configuration tab. Click Storage. Right-click a datastore and select Browse. Create a directory for this ESX host (eg, locker-servername) Close the Datastore Browser. Click Advanced Settings under Software. Select the ScratchConfig section. Change the ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation configuration option, specifying the full path to the directory. eg. /vmfs/volumes/DatastoreName/locker-servername Click OK. Put the ESXi host in maintenance mode and reboot for the configuration change to take effect. You could also use vCLI or PowerCLI to…
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02 Jul 2012
By Yendis

Exchange Server and Update Rollups Build Numbers

Microsoft
Whilst I was doing an upgrade to my Exchange environment I needed to know a particular build number of a rollup update. After many google searches I cam across a good article on Technet which gave me the information I needed so I thought I would share it. The technet article is here http://bit.ly/MNRV9g
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27 Jun 2012
By Yendis

How to Configure Default Device Access Behavior of Receiver 3.x and XenDesktop

Citrix,
With Receiver 3.x client, administrators might want to configure the default behavior for device access when connecting to a Citrix XenDesktop environment. The Desktop Viewer client device restrictions by default are based on the Internet region and this behavior can be changed by creating the Client Selective Trust feature registry keys under the HKey_Local_Machine hive in the registry and by adjusting the required values. With the default value, one of the following dialog boxes appears when accessing local files, webcams, or microphones: (more…)
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