The world we live in it is fair to say, develops and changes at a moments notice, at breakneck speed, in directions nobody predicted until 5 minutes after it happened. Sure, of course some things are predictable, some things do meander along a well-defined path, without being ‘the kind that blindside you at 4 PM […]
Farewell my little EdgeRouter (pt2 – a stay of execution)
With the weekend maintenance window agreed, begrudgingly, by the internal customers at home I set about replacing the EdgeRouter we last visited on https://itskimpossible.blog/farewell-my-little-edgerouter/ with my frankenrouter Futro S920 OPNsense. First of all, before pulling the connection down, I booted up the S920 with the power consumption monitor to see how things looked. Initially shocked […]
Nvidia DLS – Quick deploy with HA on Nutanix AHV
A colleague asked me to peer review a Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops (CVAD) on Nutanix design that would be across datacentres and leverage Nvidia GPUs. We got onto the decision of the ‘old’ way of providing high-availability for the Nvidia licensing service and looking at which API calls we could use to determine health. […]
Nutanix Move 5.x – Files Sync & Migration
Nutanix Move 5.0 introduced a fantastic new feature that allows us to move away from handwriting robocopy/richcopy scripts to migrate data into Nutanix Files. Whilst it was possible to migrate natively with Nutanix Files using a Files Migration Plan it came with some limitations notably not supporting deduplication which could cause problems. I was thrilled […]
Farewell my little EdgeRouter
5+ years, two power supplies, and various configurations later the day has come to retire the little faithful EdgeRouter that has served this household well. With a near daily frequency of it just dropping the WAN interface until a reboot, the ‘Dad, the WiFi is down again!‘ cries from the internal customers has forced my […]
Patch Management Engine
Over the holiday break, I have been enrolling devices into our Remote Monitoring & Management (RMM) tooling and seeing what quick wins could be realised. One of the first things we do after installing the RMM agent across an environment is to allow the ‘Detect Only‘ patch management task to run. This task runs twice […]
SMB over QUIC – Utter genius
I recently discovered when deploying a new VM for a customer the mention of Azure Edition on Windows Server 2022 and at the time glossed over what it really meant, hotpatch, reducing reboots oh that’s neat. But no, I missed the absolute cracker that is SMB over QUIC, effectively a VPN for SMB letting folks […]
Nutanix X-Ray 4.3.3 release
(shamelessly ripped from Angelo / release notes and stashed here for a quick tweet link!) X-Ray 4.3.3 Release Announcement X-Ray 4.3.3 is now GA! This impact-packed release has 3 new tests, cluster power metrics, test improvements, G9 test data, and more. Highlights: New! Drive Failure and Data Rebuilt test: What better way to demonstrate AOS’s […]
Nerdiocon 2023
Reflecting after the second day of networking with and learning from fellow specialists in the EUC arena. The one thought that I can’t escape from is from todays keynote where Vadim (Nerdio) and Kyle (Huntress) chat about just how fast the bad guys are evolving their attacks and how the game of cat and mouse […]
Brain dump on Citrix templates within Nutanix AHV
A colleague from a non Nutanix Citrix background asked me for a quick brain dump of things to pay attention to when it comes to bringing Nutanix AHV to the party. I thought it useful to share (in a very raw format) the brain dump… VMware Tools traditionally provided both VMware proprietary drivers (VMXNET3, Paravirtual […]