It was another great VMUG session at the November 6th half-day Toronto VMUG at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. It turned out to be a Toronto VMUG first with a remote presenter as a result of some of the aftermath of hurricane Sandy. I have to start by giving kudos to Angelo Luciani (@AngeloLuciani) for not only putting together a great …
Why VXLAN is Awesome, and Why it May Not Be
If you’re not already familiar with VXLAN, you should get to know it. VXLAN (acronym for Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network) is fast becoming the hottest new discussion item for Cloud service design. What is VXLAN? VXLAN technology overlays a virtualized Layer 2 on top of a Layer 3 network allowing the extension of Layer 2 traffic between physical segments. …
Veeam Giveaway Awesomeness!!
Wow I’ve got some great stuff to bring to you thanks to the fine folks at Veeam Software! There is a really cool contest with prizes including Microsoft Surface tablets, Apple iPads, and FREE passes to TechEd2013 and VMworld2013! All that you have to do to enter is go to the Contest Page at Veeam and fill out your registration …
Finding RDP sessions on servers using PowerShell
Have you ever needed to use RDP to get to a server console for some local admin work and then been bounced out because there are already active sessions? Or have you had your Active Directory account locked out because of an open RDP session with the old password sending locks to the domain? Wouldn’t it be so useful to …