Cloud Storage Gateways category on WhatMatrix has been updated with the latest product’s details. 13 new products have been added and in total 49 products from 8 main Cloud Storage Gateway vendors are in the comparison. There is also one significant change in the comparison. Each product now shows whether… Continue reading
After many months of really hard work of the entire WhatMatrix team it’s my pleasure to announce that Open Beta is live and site is accessible for everybody. What you can expect? Comparison website where you can select and compare multiple products and it’s features. As of today there are… Continue reading
Recently I wrote an article about a new VMware fling VM Resource and Availability Service which can be used to simulate failure of one or more ESXi hosts. In this article I’ll describe how to associate the DRS dump with the particular cluster, using the Managed Object Reference ID (MoRef… Continue reading
VMware recently introduced a new VM Resource and Availability Service fling, which helps you to identify the available resources in case of one or more ESXi hosts fail. The output will show how many VMs will be safely restarted, how many of them will be experiencing performance issue and how… Continue reading
Some of you might consider purchasing the Lenovo (formally IBM) System x servers. For the enterprise environments Lenovo offers x3850 X5 and x3850 X6 series. Since x3850 X5 will be discontinued from the market during this year, it makes sense to start considering x3850 X6. Such type of server will… Continue reading
I was experiencing strange behavior with Virtual Machines running on the ESXi hypervisor caused by Cisco Nexus CSCui86494 bug. Client was reporting very slow or even unresponsive application with long waiting time. When I tried the basic ping there was a packet loss somewhere between 70 – 80%. What made… Continue reading
One of my client is considering to move the application from Solaris based OS under Linux OS and virtualize them using VMware vSphere. The requirement is to have the most efficient way how to monitor the application status and react on any failure asap. Taking into account such requirements, one of… Continue reading
It happened several times that I needed to have some kind of a validation checklist after the vSphere installation. I decided to put together all my notes and collect the specific steps and configurations to be tested in the validation process for VMware Infrastructure. The goal is to quantify the… Continue reading
