Azure Stack 101: The Definitive Introduction

Azure Stack

Microsoft’s Azure Stack is an excellent toolset that allows enterprises to run a hybrid cloud right in their own datacenters, giving them additional cloud options.

But to really use it to its best advantage, IT pros should know the ins and outs of Azure Stack so they can use it within their business IT infrastructures to better manage, speed up and control their Azure cloud deployments and workloads.

A good place to start is with a primer on Azure Stack itself to give business users a broad look at what’s under the hood of their IT infrastructure.

Continue reading

New Podcast – MVPITPro by Andy Syewicze & Rob Corradini

This is the start of an awesome podcast series called MVPITPro.  I am excited to be working with MVP Andy Syewicze from Altaro Software to produce this series of podcasts for all the IT Pros out there. Episode one is with my fellow MVP and friend Symon Perriman of FanWide, and 5nine Software before that. 🙂 So sit back and enjoy the ride!!!  And maybe you learn a little bit about being an MVP!!

YouTube player

MVPITPro

Enjoy, until next time, Rob Corradini, MVP, Cloud & Datacenter

Joining 5nine Software as Director of Product Management

Today, I am excited to announce I will be joining the awesome team at 5nine Software as Director of Product Management. My primary job responsibilities will be for the product strategy and direction of 5nine’s security and management solutions.
5nineSo, you ask, why Product Management? It’s been a lifelong dream to be part of shaping the direction of a technology solution.  By joining 5nine, I hope to simplify IT, Cloud and beyond, because there’s always a better way 🙂

“What prepared me for this was very surprising looking back.”

Continue reading

Ignite 2016 highlights and pics….

Well, I’m fresh back from Microsoft Ignite 2016.  It was a busy week of attending sessions and booth duty for Nutanix :). Here is a summary of highlights and pics from the conference.  I plan on diving deep into each of the major highlights over the coming weeksmonths. My first blog post will be on Storage Spaces Direct and its evolution. On to the updates…

Continue reading

CPS Standard on Nutanix Released

nutanixCPS
Fun and crazy days here at Nutanix. I’ve busy been fielding a lot of calls around our new offering, CPS Standard on Nutanix. Now if you don’t know what CPS is, it stands for Cloud Platform System.

Continue reading

Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview finally sees the light….:)

AzureStackIntro Azure Stack
Change is in the air! I know that phrase is associated with spring, but I love the change of seasons, especially, winter, when days get shorter and I get to spend time in the snow with my kids. Every winter, I think I can rely on the patterns from the seasons before, but I quickly find I have to adapt to a new reality. For example, I live near Boston and just when I thought we would have a mild winter, mother nature strikes. One week its 50’s and the next we are in the middle of a blizzard. Changes and transformations are just another fact of life.

Continue reading

Understanding Windows Azure Pack – Reconfigure portal names, ports and deploy certificates – Part 6

happynewyear1 Windows Azure Pack
Happy New Year Everyone!!!  I know Azure Stack is just around the corner, but I still get lots of questions around configuring WAP and portals. So to follow-up my Windows Azure Pack (WAP) series, I am going to talk about reconfiguring server names and ports as well as assigning trusted certificates to my WAP Portals.

Continue reading

Deploying a Test Lab SQL 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Group with Hyper-V on Nutanix – Failover Cluster Configuration – Part 1

In my various blog series, you need a SQL 2012 server setup for hosting databases with different Microsoft Solutions. Testing out on a SQL AlwaysOn AG will give you a feel of a real world scenario.

If you want to understand SQL 2012 Always-On Availability Group, check my blog post on SQL 2012 AlwaysON Feature – What is it? How does it work?.

To learn more about SQL Server on Nutanix Check out the Microsoft SQL Server on Nutanix Best Practices!

To give credit, most of the content was taken from Steve Poitras’s blog.  He did a series on Configuring SQL Server on VMware ESXi that is awesome and I altered it for Hyper-V and added more details for installing.

In the following blog post,  I’ll go over how to install and configure a test lab Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn AG with Hyper-V on Nutanix.

Continue reading