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
vRealize Operations Manager for View is a ‘must have’ in every View based VDI environment. Its capabilities for capacity and performance monitoring are priceless. Any kind of troubleshooting is much more easy when you have a tool like this deployed in your environment. Following my previous articles for Installing/Configuring and View… Continue reading
The truth is that big part of IT population does not clearly understand what Docker is. I recently got a question from one of my customers, if I can perform conversion of a Docker container to a full VM. “We developed an app in Container, now we want to… Continue reading
Update 1.4.2015 : added vSphere Data Protection, updated vSphere Replication, corrected host max VMs, added VVOL details vSphere 6.0 is out since 2nd of February 2015 lets see whats new: 1. Compute Features the new virtual hardware ‘version 11’ 128 vCPUs (64 vCPU with 5.5) 4TB of RAM (NUMA aware) (1TB… Continue reading
Last week we had an introductory technical meeting with Kemp Technologies and it was amazing to see such a great solution which I’m sure will grow a lot in the future. So, within this article I will try to speak about ADC and one of Kemp Technologies solutions: LoadMaster. The… 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 would like to share an experience with vMotion problem, which I’ve met a while ago during upgrade of few hosts from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi5.0. Environment: IBM x3850 M2 /x3950 M2 -[72334RG]- with Integrated Dual-port Broadcom 5709C PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller, 2 dual-port ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express… Continue reading
I’ve first heard about Docker during VMworld 2014, when partnership of VMware and Docker was announced. I am hard core VMware fan, so I became very interested of what Docker was. While reading about Docker I realized that the technology looked strangely familiar. I was thinking: “Containers? Application isolation? Wasn’t… Continue reading
vRealize Operations for Horizon collects performance data from monitored software and hardware objects in your View environment and provides predictive analysis and real-time information about problems in your View infrastructure. Following our previous vROps installation guide we have installed an vROps instance on Windows Server. The current guide should be applicable… Continue reading
Few weeks ago VMware released the announced during VMworld 2014 vRealize Operation Manager 6 which is the successor of vCenter Operation Manager. Changing the name of the product this time is not just a marketing approach, but a very big change in the product architecture. Having the product installation in… Continue reading
