It’s that time of the year again. While businesses are finishing off 2019 and people start to reminisce of all the good, the bad and the ugly. This year, I’ll join the people who look back at another trip around our sun on our beautiful planet Earth. Let’s look back! January 2019 The year usually … Continue reading "2019 in Review"
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Video of my Active Directory session at VMworld Europe is now available
On November 7, 2019, I presented a 60-minute session with Deji Akomolafe. The session was titled ‘Virtualize Active Directory the right way’. We presented the session in the context of VMware’s VMworld Europe 2019 event in Barcelona. Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) allows organizations to deploy a scalable and secure directory service for managing users, … Continue reading "Video of my Active Directory session at VMworld Europe is now available"
Pictures of VMworld Europe 2019
Deji Akomolafe invited me over to Barcelona last week, to present two sessions with him at VMware’s VMworld Europe 2019 event. After I had spend Tuesday November 5th at one of my favorite customers, I drove to the airport to take my first flight to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. I had a short layover, … Continue reading "Pictures of VMworld Europe 2019"
I’m speaking at VMware VMworld Europe 2019
I’m pleased to announce that I will be delivering a 1-hour break-out session and a 4-hour workshop with Deji Akomolafe, Staff Solutions Architect at VMware, at VMware VMworld Europe 2019 in Barcelona on October 4th – 7th, 2019. About VMware VMworld VMworld is a global conference for virtualization and cloud computing, hosted by VMware. … Continue reading "I’m speaking at VMware VMworld Europe 2019"
Pictures of the NLVMUG BBQ
On Monday, I visited the BBQ organized by the Dutch chapter of the VMware User Group (NLVMUG). The NLVMUG BBQ was held at Beach Club Down Under in Nieuwegein. This year’s NLVMUG BBQ is conveniently scheduled after VMworld US (just two weeks ago) and well before VMworld Europe. Naturally, both the VMworld Europe event, and … Continue reading "Pictures of the NLVMUG BBQ"
Domain Controller Cloning on VMware vSphere
After detailing Active Directory Virtualization Safeguards with VM-GenerationID in part 5 of this series on Virtualizing Domain Controllers on vSphere, it’s time to talk about the second Active Directory Domain Services feature that is enabled through the VM-GenerationID technology: Domain Controller cloning. About Domain Controller cloning Microsoft recommends not re-using Domain Controllers for other … Continue reading "Domain Controller Cloning on VMware vSphere"
Active Directory Virtualization Safeguards with VM-GenerationID on VMware vSphere
Arriving at the fifth part of this series on Virtualizing Domain Controllers on vSphere, I managed to gather some feedback on these blogposts. One question that emerged after writing the last blogpost on Replication considerations for Domain Controllers running on VMware vSphere was: Isn’t Windows Server 2012 supposed to solve all these challenges with virtualizing … Continue reading "Active Directory Virtualization Safeguards with VM-GenerationID on VMware vSphere"
Replication considerations for Domain Controllers running on VMware vSphere
Active Directory utilizes a multi-master replication model. It’s great that each Domain Controller provides read and write access to the Active Directory database, but it comes with a big drawback: Domain Controllers need to be in sync to provide consistent data to clients, independent of the Domain Controller communicated to. A big question to ask … Continue reading "Replication considerations for Domain Controllers running on VMware vSphere"
Managing Active Directory Time Synchronization on VMware vSphere
One of the hardest things to get right with virtual Domain Controllers is the time hierarchy in Active Directory. Recommended practices from Microsoft have been all over the place, but seem to have solidified in the last years, but the question remains: How do I manage Active Directory Time Synchronization on VMware vSphere? This is … Continue reading "Managing Active Directory Time Synchronization on VMware vSphere"
Sizing Domain Controllers correctly on VMware vSphere
In the first part of this series, we discussed why we want to virtualize Domain Controllers. The first question people ask is: How do I properly size Domain Controllers on my virtualization platform? Specifically, for VMware vSphere, this is a good question, because there are a couple of areas of attention, beyond the recommended practices … Continue reading "Sizing Domain Controllers correctly on VMware vSphere"