Create Virtual Machine in Cloud takes forever in VMM

First a bit of background history. I was at a customer discussing topology and best practices for implementing Logical Networks, Site Definitions and subnets and VLAN’s. The customer had to build VLAN depended networks so the question was why not just create 1 Logical network, 1 Site definition and put …

Powershell Source Control: GIT and Visual Studio Online

In this blog post I am going to explain how I manage my Powershell scripts / projects. Let me start with my toolset: Visual Studio Online Free Subscription Github for Windows to use Git Shell Sapien Powershell 2014. Next we create a new VS Online account. Go to http://visualstudio.com and …

Connect a VM to the Cisco Nexus 1000v

Welcome back at the blog series “Deploying Cisco Nexus 1000v Switch”. We added the VSM to SCVMM in the last blog post. In this post I will deploy the switch to the Hyper-V host and then we will configure a VM to connect to the switch. I assume in this …

Add the Cisco Nexus 1000V VSM to SCVMM

Welcome back on the Cisco train that leaves us with the next step of the series Installing Cisco Nexus 1000V into Hyper-V. In the last post we created a simple switch configuration and in this post we are going to connect the VSM and apply the configuration on VMM. There …

Create a configuration for the switch

Welcome back at the series of installing the Cisco Nexus 1000V on SCVMM. In first post we downloaded the VMM Providers, build and deployed the VSM template. In the previous post we ran the first configuration for the HA setup of the VSM Virtual machines. Today we are going to …

Installing the Cisco Nexus 1000v VSM VM’s

This is a follow up on How to install the Cisco Nexus 1000v in a Hyper-V environment. In the last post we installed the VMM provider, created and deployed the VSM template. Now we are going to install the both VSM modules. So here we go! Boot the VM’s we …

Install Cisco Nexus 1000V in Virtual Machine Manager 2012R2

Part 1: Installing the SCVMM provider and create the VSM VM Template (this post) Part 2: Installing the VSM VM’s Part 3: Create a configuration for the switch Part 4: Add the VSM to SCVMM Part 5: Create a VM to use the Switch The Cisco Nexus 1000V is made …

Configure Remote Desktop Gateway to use Multi-Factor Authentication

In this post I am configuring a test case for Multi-Factor Authentication. We are going to convert a existing remote desktop gateway deployment with username / password authentication and a central NPS running on ADC to use the MFA. As I like to use oneNote with pen on my Surface …