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
Few weeks ago I did attend web meeting about “Extending VMware vCenter to Hybrid Cloud” with Oded Haner. It get my curiosity as it was promising something i did not believe is possible. Even after seeing the presentation I had doubts. I decided I have to see and touch it,… 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
In this article I will cover steps and actions we took in order to ensure a seamless migration of our current SQL Database server to a new one. This will include a lot of recommendations and what issues we faced both in testing and real environment. Prerequisites Before starting with… Continue reading
Hello again to all interested in vCloud technologies. In the second part of this presentation I will walk through some of the functions available with vCloud Connector and use cases as well as some basic troubleshooting steps. In Part 1 we covered the initial installation and configuration, and we can… Continue reading
A VMware Horizon View block or pod could contains View Standard Server, Replica Servers, Security Servers and Transfer Servers. Also part of the View are View Agent installed on every desktop source and View Client installed on every end point device which is used to access your virtual desktop. All of… Continue reading
Many of you are willing to get the VMware certification but, the price of the ICM (Install, Configure and Manage) course is stopping you. VMware announced that “If you are Valid CCNA or CCNP certification” you can go for the NSX exam (VCP-NV) which allow you to have the certification… Continue reading
Hello fans of virtualization. I have prepared series of documents in which I’m going to show you how to prepare your NetApp storage and create either NFS or iSCSI datastores on the storage side for your vSphere platform. I’m going to cover the following topics – Create vFiler, create volume,… Continue reading
Hello to all fans of virtualization technologies, I have prepared short overview of vCloud Connector solution and how it works with vCloud Air. Same can be used to move or copy workload between OnPrem vCenter and vCloud Director, or between two vCenters or two vCloud directors. Connection that is established… Continue reading
New issue was discovered which may result in corrupted backups leveraging vSphere CBT (Change Block Tracking) for incremental backups. Basically all backup products which use VMware API for Backups ( Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) )are affected. This issue occurs when you expand a virtual disk vmdk file which has… Continue reading
