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Azure Premium SSD vs Standard SSD vs HDD Benchmarked

One of the things I have always wondered about was if the cost to use SSD or Premium SSD justifies the cost compared with standard HDD, or spinning rust as it is known, so I thought I would benchmark them! First up is what should be the slowest of them

VMware ESXi Purple Screen of Death - Fatal CPU Mismatch

Earlier this morning, I decided that it was time that I got a proper lab installed in the basement. As I am a current VMware vExpert, it makes perfect sense to use ESXi as my main hypervisor. Not only am I very familiar with the product, but I just happen

Idrive e2 Review 2025

part one At this week's VeeamOn 2025 conference that I attended in San Diego, I came across a company in the vendor hall that, admittedly, I had not heard of before. iDrive. Or is it Idrive? Or IDRIVE? Guessing from the logo, it is IDrive, so that is

Veeam On 2025 - The Journey

Day Zero - Travel Day I am sitting here in the Toronto airport after completing my first two-hour flight on the way to sunny San Diego for Veeam ON 2025. I am staring down the barrel of two more legs (Toronto to Denver, and then Denver to San Diego), before

Upgrade IGEL OS using IGEL Cloud Gateway (ICG) and S3

So, due to COVID you now have a bunch of IGEL OS machines sitting in peoples homes, with no real way to manage them remotely, specifically any way to upgrade the firmware. Enter the IGEL Cloud Gateway (ICG). This is a solution that allows you to manage your IGEL thin

Hyper-V troubleshooting unable to configure vm's

Issue: You have found you are getting unknown error (0x80072f05) when changing properties within Windows Virtual Machine Manager. Solution: Go to mmc.msc and add the certificate store for the local machine. Check on the personal store and you should see the certificate has expired. First run a test-netconnection fqdn

How to Reset StoreFront to the Initial Factory Settings

Countless times I have had issues with Citrix Storefront and I needed to completely reset the server/application to factory defaults. In this article I will show you how. Complete the following steps to reset a previously configured StoreFront installation: 1. Open a PowerShell command prompt as an Administrator and

Netscaler setup and Install

This guide will be based on the knowledge that you understand Virtual Machines and Hypervisors and will therefore wont go into too much detail on this. 1. Create a new virtual machine within your hypervisor (in my example I will be using VMWare ESXI) suggested requirements are: 4 cpu vcores

IGEL Upgrade from OS 11 to OS 12: In less than three minutes

Like many of your out there in the EUC space, I was thrilled when [IGEL announced] (IGEL OS 11.09.100 has been released) that we can now upgrade directly from IGEL OS 11 to IGEL OS12. So, me being the geek I am had to test this new functionality.

Connect to EC2 Instance via Session Manager

So, for those of you who have dabbled with AWS best practices by not assigning a public IP address (and therefore Internet Access), you are going to run into an issue connecting to your instance via RDP or SSH, as there is no public facing front door. No biggie -

My Road To Becoming a vExpert - 2023

First of all, I assume many of you are thinking, WTF is a vExpert, I say that, as I know that was my first thought when I heard of it (along with vbeers, and vbrownbag). When I firt discovered the vExpert program, I assume (incorrectly) that it was a bunch

IGEL OS 11.09.100 has been released

The time has finally come for IGEL OS 11.09.100. Normally, I don’t take the time to write a post on each new IGEL release, however this one is pretty big, and needs to be called out. Why so big? Well, let me hit you with the release

My Journey to becoming an AWS Solutions Architect

Many of you have asked me how I managed to achieve the AWS Solutions Architect certification, so I thought I would blog it up for the masses! First of all, a little background on the certification itself. The certification is now in its third generation. What does this mean? Well,

Citrix Performance Monitoring with Goliath Technologies

Introduction and Preamble As many of you in the End User Computing (EUC) space know, a ton of third-party solutions are available on the market today to keep eyes on your EUC infrastructure. For many of us, the only tool available to us is what is supplied with the brokering