Active Directory User Migration in Hybrid Exchange Environment Using ADMT – Part2

7th of January, 2019 / / No Comments

Configuring source and target domains

In the previous post of this series I discussed about the tasks involved in migrating a user from a domain to another in a hybrid exchange environment. Now let’s get down to the nitty-witty of migration.

Before getting into moving the users across to target domain, there are few things that need to be installed and configured in both source and target domain. Let’s start by looking at the configuration steps for source and target domains.… [Keep reading] “Active Directory User Migration in Hybrid Exchange Environment Using ADMT – Part2”

AWS DeepRacer – Tips and Tricks – Battery and SSH

21st of December, 2018 / / No Comments

If you would like to know more about what the AWS DeepRacer is, please refer to my previous post:  AWS DeepRacer – Overview

I was going to do an unboxing video, but Andrew Knaebel has done a well enough job of that and posted it on YouTube, so I’ll skip that part and move onto more detail on getting up and running with the AWS DeepRacer. 

A lot of this is covered in the AWS DeepRacer Getting Started Guide so I’ll try and focus on the places where it was not so clear.… [Keep reading] “AWS DeepRacer – Tips and Tricks – Battery and SSH”

AWS DeepRacer – Training your reinforcement learning model in AWS Robomaker

21st of December, 2018 / / No Comments

If you would like to know more about what the AWS DeepRacer is, please refer to my previous post:  AWS DeepRacer – Overview

There seems to be many ways to get your AWS DeepRacer model trained. These are a few I have discovered:

  • The AWS DeepRacer Console (Live Preview yet to commence, GA early 2019)
  • SageMaker RL notebook
  • Locally from the DeepRacer GitHub repository
  • AWS RoboMaker sample simulation
  • AWS RoboMaker Cloud9 IDE with sample application downloaded

In this post, we will be exploring how to train a reinforcement learning model using AWS Robomaker, both with the sample application downloaded and in the Cloud9 development environment.… [Keep reading] “AWS DeepRacer – Training your reinforcement learning model in AWS Robomaker”

Backups? Doesn’t Amazon handle that?

20th of December, 2018 / / No Comments

For many, the cloud is a magical place where servers just appear and your cloud provider looks after everything, or, if they at least have a concept of the servers, they just assume that the provider will also back them up. Lots of people never bothered to think about protection in a VMware environment, so why start now?

Unfortunately, while your cloud provider probably supplies the tools, you still need to do the configuration and management.… [Keep reading] “Backups? Doesn’t Amazon handle that?”

AWS DeepRacer – How to load a model

17th of December, 2018 / / No Comments

If you would like to know more about what the AWS DeepRacer is, please refer to my previous post:  AWS DeepRacer – Overview

This post assumes you have followed the AWS DeepRacer Getting Started Guide which gets you to the point of being able to manually drive the car.

So now you have the AWS DeepRacer charged up and ready to go. You have a trained model you got from Re:Invent or you followed my other post here and trained your model with RoboMaker/SageMaker.… [Keep reading] “AWS DeepRacer – How to load a model”

AWS DeepRacer – How to login to the Ubuntu Computer Onboard

17th of December, 2018 / / No Comments

If you would like to know more about what the AWS DeepRacer is, please refer to my previous post:  AWS DeepRacer – Overview

This post assumes you have followed the AWS DeepRacer Getting Started Guide which gets you to the point of being able to manually drive the car.

So to go deep into your understanding of the AWS DeepRacer and to troubleshoot deep technical issues, it may become necessary to log into the Ubuntu Server on-board the AWS DeepRacer.… [Keep reading] “AWS DeepRacer – How to login to the Ubuntu Computer Onboard”

AWS DeepRacer – Overview

17th of December, 2018 / / No Comments

Recently I had the privilege of attending the AWS Re:Invent 2018 conference in Las Vegas. Among the hundreds of announcements, there was one that particularly spoke to my passions of reinforcement learning and robotics.

The AWS DeepRacer!

  • AWS DeepRacer with the cover on
  • AWS DeepRacer with the cover off

I was one of the lucky few that got into the AWS DeepRacer workshops where we were introduced to the technology in the service as well as interacting with the yet to be released DeepRacer console.… [Keep reading] “AWS DeepRacer – Overview”

Windows 2016 fileserver cluster on Microsoft StorSimple – Part 4

5th of December, 2018 / / No Comments

Failover to cloud appliance in case of DR event

In a disaster recovery (DR) scenario, the primary device stops functioning. StorSimple uses the primary device as source and moves the associated cloud data to another target device. This process is referred to as the failover. The following graphic illustrates the process of failover.

The target device for a failover could be a physical device or even a cloud appliance. The target device may be located in the same or a different geographical location than the source device.… [Keep reading] “Windows 2016 fileserver cluster on Microsoft StorSimple – Part 4”

Windows 2016 fileserver cluster on Microsoft StorSimple – Part 3

5th of December, 2018 / / No Comments

Setting up a 2*node windows 2016 on-prem fileserver cluster and 1*Windows 2016 fileserver on Azure

In previous posts (part1 and part2) of this series I discussed about the overall solution and how to configure on-prem and cloud StorSimple storage systems. I also explained the steps to provision the storage to servers from StorSimple storage.

The focus of this post is to discuss about the requirements and steps to create an on-prem Scale-Out-Fileserver cluster and a standalone fileserver on Azure for DR capability.… [Keep reading] “Windows 2016 fileserver cluster on Microsoft StorSimple – Part 3”

Windows 2016 fileserver cluster on Microsoft StorSimple – Part 2

3rd of December, 2018 / / No Comments

Setting up the on-prem StorSimple 8600 device and StorSimple 8020 cloud appliance

In the part1 of this series, I discussed about the solution, an overview of different products involved and how those products hang together to provide a fileserver solution with DR capability in Azure.

Now, lets discuss the step-by-step implementation procedure to get the solution into a working state. In this part I am going to show you the steps to configure on-prem StorSimple storage and StorSimple cloud appliance.… [Keep reading] “Windows 2016 fileserver cluster on Microsoft StorSimple – Part 2”