VDI Optimization – VM Hardware

For a well functioning VDI environment all components should be well tuned and optimized. For VMware Horizon View environment there are several components where optimization practices could be applied – View Connection Brokers (Connection Servers, Security Servers), vSphere infrastructure, Virtual Desktop templates or golden images, end user devices. In this article… Continue reading

VMware Horizon 6.1.1 – What’s New

Yesterday (4/6/2015) was released the next ‘minor’ update for Horizon 6 – Horizon 6.1.1. In addition of the new features in View 6.1 which I wrote about, now we can find few more, in my opinion significant. Here is the list with the newly added features: Client Drive Redirection – Finally… Continue reading

Create and Configure Horizon View 6.1 Cloud Pod

The following two articles of mine will include some guidance and useful information about the new feature called ‘Cloud Pod’ which was introduced in Horizon View 6.0. Create and Configure Horizon View 6.1 Cloud Pod Create and Configure Global Entitlements In my previous article about What’s New In Horizon View… Continue reading

Interviewing for VMware vSphere Support Engineer job role. Part 2: Junior engineer

This is a Part 2 of  ‘Interviewing for VMware vSphere Support Engineer job role’ series of posts. In my previous post I covered some of the questions which I ask in the first part of the interviews I lead. Those questions are asked to evaluate if candidate has general IT knowledge, and if he… Continue reading

A new IBM SVC, Storwize (Spectrum Virtualize) v7.5 brings VVols, HyperSwap…

IBM made an announcement last week that a new IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software V7.5.0 is coming soon (5th June 2015), which will bring supports for the features like vSphere VVols, HyperSwap, Microsoft ODX… If you haven’t heard yet, IBM replaced Storwize family naming earlier this year with Spectrum Virtualize Software.… Continue reading

ALERT: VENOM Vulnerability CVE-2015-3456, Clouds Exposed!

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Crowdstrike disclosed a serious VM Escape vulnerability – codename VENOM, CVE-2015-3456 which has been around here since 2004. This one is especially serious because it is affecting the VMs in their default configuration and could be also affecting thousands of the VMs in cloud. This vulnerability may allow an attacker… Continue reading

CEE RTE – Regional Technical Exchange 2015

Central and Eastern Europe Regional Technical Exchange 2015 (CEE RTE) Last week I did have an opportunity to join an IBM RTE conference held in Prague, hotel Ambassador (Zlata Husa). CEE RTE started in 2010 and it’s a yearly event, for me it was the first time to attend. Event was… Continue reading

UPDATE: New ESXi 5.5 patches called off !!!

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Apparently VMware called off latest patches for ESXi 5.5 released on 30.4.2015, However all of them can be still residing in your Update Manager! There is no official statement from VMware out there yet, but I suggest you do not apply following patches: ESX550-201504101-SG ESX550-201504101-BG ESX550-201504102-BG ESX550-201504104-BG I have found… Continue reading