Being a teccie, I tend to accumulate lots of kit which invariably sits around gathering dust, so every so often I have a clear-out, and this is it!
HP ProLiant Microservers x 2 (new)
These are brand new, in sealed boxes from an aborted project. Make ideal small home lab servers. The will run ESXi, XenServer or HyperV. I use one to run my home automation system.
HP Proliant N36L MicroServer 1P (HP part number 633724-421)Form Factor: MicroServerProcessor: AMD Athlon II Model NEO N36L (2 Core, 1.30GHz 1MB L2, 15W)L2 Cache: 2MB L2Memory: 1024MB PC3-10600E UDIMMs DDR3Memory Slots: 2 DIMM SlotsMaximum Internal Memory: 8GBNumber of Hard Drives Supported: (4)LFF SATA; non-hot plugHard Disk Controller: Integrated 4 Port SATA RAIDStandard Srorage Connection: Non-hot plug 3.5 Inch SATAOptical Drive: NoneOperating System: NoneNetworking: (1) 1GbE NC107i 1 Port£99 ONO for collection or can post for £9.60 to most UK addresses.
Dell Intel dual port PCI Gigabit NIC (new x 2)
Part number 01P8D1£20ONO
Crucial 2Gb DDR3 PC3-8500 Unbuffered ECC RAM modules (new x 8)
- Part number CT25672BA1067
- Form Factor: UDIMM
- Module Size: 2GB
- Warranty: Limited Lifetime
- Specs: DDR3 PC3-8500 • CL=7 • Unbuffered • ECC • DDR3-1066 • 1.5V • 256Meg x 72
- Suitable for use in the HP MicroServers above.
- £19 ONO
More stuff to be added soon. Contact me if you are interested in any of the above.
Citrix released the new version of XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 on September 30th. It’s very much a point release, introducing some features that got removed from the architecture change from IMA in 6.5 to FMA in 7/7.5.
The full list of what’s new can be found on eDocs.
My top three feature picks
This is part seven of a series looking at XenApp 7.5 & 7.6.
Part one – What’s new, and installation
Part two – Configuring the first site
Part three – Preparing my XenApp template image
Part Four – Creating the machine catalog to give me a hosting platform
Part five – Creating the delivery group to publish apps and desktops to user
Part six – new policy filtering options available
For those familiar with the way Load Balancing works in XenApp 6.5, the changes in 7.5 are quite radical.
Gone are the load balancing policies one is used to. Also gone are the worker groups that we used to silo servers, for both application and server grouping, and to perform server fail-over between sites. Gone is the ability to have single global farms, and use zones to segregate our servers into data-centre sized groups with the ability to fail over one region to another.
Some of the topics raised in this post form part of a talk I’m giving at GeekSpeak Tonight at Synergy LA. If you’re a follower of the blog or follow me on twitter do stop and say hi!
Everything has changed. And not all in a good way. Let’s dig deeper
This is part six of a series looking at XenApp 7.5.
Part one – What’s new, and installation
Part two – Configuring the first site
Part three – Preparing my XenApp template image
Part Four – Creating the machine catalog to give me a hosting platform
Part five – Creating the delivery group to publish apps and desktops to user
This part – new policy filtering options available
In Part seven I examine some of the load balancing and fail-over changes
If you are familiar with XenApp 6.x policy framework, you’ll probably be applying (or filtering as Citrix calls it) computer policies to either individual servers, worker groups, or Active Directory OUs. XenApp 7.5 has done away with the concept of worker groups, but there are several new ways of applying/filtering XenApp policies that provide even more granularity over worker groups.
I’m pleased to support the Lives not Knives charity in their Build Croydon event on June 16th, part of London Technology Week.
I’ll be repeating a talk I gave recently to Old Palace Whiftgift school careers fair on working in the IT field, about the kind of work I do as a Cloud Infrastructure Architect, my journey through education and university, and some of the pro and cons of working as an IT consultant.
Exact timings have yet to be announced, but you can register for the event here.
