www.booches.nl on a Synology DS107+
I wanted to buy a new USB disc for backing up all my files, but I didn’t know what to buy. A storage consultant told me about the Synology products. Together with some colleagues, we started to look at the different products. At the end we narrowed our search to the Synology DS107+. This is … Read More
Blogging colleagues
I am not the only one from Ictivity spamming the Internet with my blog. Their are more Consultants, from different disciplines, who share their knowledge with other people. Let’s have a closer look at them. Yellow Bricks Recently my colleague Duncan Epping already introduced me on his personal blog. Duncan is Virtualization Consultant for Ictivity, … Read More
Port-channel configuration for VMWare
I received some e-mails from people asking for configuration examples for Cisco switch in conjunction with VMWare servers. That is why I post the configuration (I normally use) beneath. This configuration enables a 802.1Q trunk connection between the switch and the VMWare server. This configuration requires the VMWare server to use VLAN tagging. The Port-channel … Read More
Exchange 2007 with ISA 2006
Today I have be working on publishing Microsoft Exchange Outlook WebAccess and Active Sync to the Internet. We had some discussions with some Microsoft Consultants about a secure way to publish Outlook Web Access to the Internet, especially the authentication part of such a solution. Some people are talking about publishing OWA directly to the … Read More
HP Blade Switch Development
Maybe old news for some of you, but HP has developed the Cisco switches for the HP Blade servers. The Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3120G and 3120X provide stacking functionality. This improves the functionality of the switches by creating a single switch from two physical switches. Source: The Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3120 Series Switches … Read More
Configuration Example, Routing
BGP Multihoming
Today I have been playing with configuring BGP and multihoming. I configured a simple test environment where one customer router (local AS 100) connects to two ISP routers from the same ISP (remote AS 200). I configure some kind of load-sharing amongst the two links to the ISP. Important when configuring BGP is the concept … Read More