Posts related to Virtualization and Cloud technology based on VMware products.
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
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
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
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
