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Romain Serre
April 14, 2020

Enable Active Directory authentication over SMB for Azure file shares

Establishing VPN connections to your on-prem infrastructure and then managing resources from there can be too complicated and straining. To simplify that process, you can now use Azure Active Directory: deliver Kerberos and NTLM tokens for Azure Files, access company data from anywhere, add cache servers to ROBO, and more.

Didier Van Hoye
April 9, 2020

A highly available SMTP relay solution – Part II

In the previous part, the article focused on the design of HA SMTP relay solutions. It also outlined the steps you should take to correctly prepare for setting up. In this part, you will get the detailed step-by-step guide on how to actually set up the solution without any trouble. The process is cumbersome but manageable.

Didier Van Hoye
April 7, 2020

A highly available SMTP relay solution – Part I

This article is part one of a two-part series on configuring a highly available, on-premises SMTP relay solution. In this part, we discuss the design and do all the preparational work before setting up the actual SMTP relay solution in part two.

Florent Appointaire
April 2, 2020

[Azure] Dedicated Hosts

With Azure Dedicated Host, you get the ability to isolate your compliance-related workload VMs, so that capacity isn’t shared to VMs catering to customers. You get a dedicated Hyper-V host that provides control over the mentioned workload separately, allowing to set the maintenance policies of the host. The service comes as a SaaS.

Kevin Soltow
April 2, 2020

ESXi vSphere vSwitch Load Balancing Options: Pros & Cons

Previously, I shared my experience with certain problems with NIC Load Balancing on ESXi host and how they can be solved with ESXCLI. Some of my colleagues have been asking me what the difference between several types of load balancing and which one is better for use is. So, now I’m sharing my thoughts about concepts of network environment load balancing on the infrastructure level.

Dmitriy Dolgiy
April 1, 2020

Hyper-V Replica

Today I’m planning on telling you as much as I know about virtual machine replication function in the Hyper-V environment with the current version of Windows Server 2019 OS as an example.

Paolo Valsecchi
March 31, 2020

Migrate Azure AD Connect to a New Server

Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect) is a sync tool usually used to synchronize Active Directory accounts with the Office 365 environment. If the need to migrate to a new server emerges, you have to follow specific steps in strict order to migrate your AAD Connect tool first to avoid any synchronization issues.

Alex Samoylenko
March 26, 2020

VMware vSAN Cluster Rebalancing: Automatic & Proactive

VMware vSAN clusters are typically aggregates of several ESXi hosts. Local disks with VM data are divided into groups there. It’s preferable that each disk’s load variance doesn’t reach 30%. If it does, there are two options: Automatic and Proactive rebalancing. Each of them has its own pros and cons; you decide which to choose.

Florent Appointaire
March 24, 2020

Azure Cost Management

Having credits in Azure in advance is a great option that you choose how to unfold. You can invest in credits, allocate them to necessary features and tools, and set the billing. And to do that conveniently, Azure Cost Management is there to help. You can plan your finances, redistribute the billing, and see how cost-effective your choices are.

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Enable Active Directory authentication over SMB for Azure file shares

A highly available SMTP relay solution – Part II

A highly available SMTP relay solution – Part I

[Azure] Dedicated Hosts

ESXi vSphere vSwitch Load Balancing Options: Pros & Cons

Hyper-V Replica

Migrate Azure AD Connect to a New Server

VMware vSAN Cluster Rebalancing: Automatic & Proactive

Azure Cost Management