Building vSphere 6 with VSAN on IBM Softlayer: Part 3 – Configuring Networking on Softlayer

Now when we have ESXis installed and vCenter server deployed, we need to do some patching and, of course, networking config. First, it is always a good idea to have your vSphere environment up to date. The thing is that Softlayer uses Images to provision servers and those images are not… Continue reading

Building vSphere 6 with VSAN on IBM Softlayer: Part 2 – Ordering vCenter server on Softlayer

This is the second part of Building vSphere 6 with VSAN on IBM Softlayer series. In the first part we’ve discussed how to order bare metal server with ESXi 6 installed. In this part I will show how to order vCenter Server 6 on a Windows Cloud Instance (aka CI –… Continue reading

Building vSphere 6 with VSAN on IBM Softlayer: Part 1 – Ordering ESXi hosts on Softlayer.

I am recently spending a lot of time with IBM Softlayer, in particular I am building vSphere running inside Softlayer. In this series of articles I want to show how you can build an environment with vSphere 6 and VSAN inside Softlayer. One important note: although I work in IBM, my view is form… Continue reading

VMs crashing after snapshot consolidation in ESXi 5.5 Update 3

Those of you who follow social media or simply have ESXi 5.5 Update 3 and use snapshots, are already aware of the problem described in VMware KB 2133118 . After Snapshot consolidation task, virtual machines running on VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 3 hosts will crash. These are the type of errors… Continue reading

Runecast – Features Review | Part 2

Following my first article about Installation and Basic Configuration of Runecast Analyzer appliance, it is time to go through all features and how we can use them in our day-to-day operational tasks. I am going to add a separate point for each of the Menus from the Runecast GUI interface.… Continue reading

Runecast – Install and Configure | Part 1

…or how easy it is to know the status of your vSphere environment Six are the main benefits which Runecast could provide to your company: Save Time – IT guys will not have to read knowledge base articles and check if your environment is affected or not. No time will be… Continue reading

IBM FlashSystem V9000 and VMware vSphere ESXi Guidelines

I’m really glad I had opportunity to participate on a RedBook residency regarding IBM FlashSystem V9000 and VMware “Best Practices” (it was actually one of my last thing which I did as IBMer) and till the RedPaper is released for public I decided to write a sneak peek with some… Continue reading

Interviewing for VMware vSphere Support Engineer job role. Part 5: Generic questions to probe business attitude

In this part of our ‘Interviewing’ series we’ll look at the non-technical part of the dialogue between the potential employee and employer. As Aram did for the technical part I will also look from the interviewer side. The purpose is to probe candidate’s business attitude. Needless to say that job interview is a… Continue reading

Interviewing for VMware vSphere Support Engineer job role. Part 4: Third Level engineer

Hello Readers, with some delay, this is a Part 4 of  ‘Interviewing for VMware vSphere Support Engineer job role’ series of posts. In previous part I covered questions for a Second Level Support engineer, in this part I will talk about the Third level. Third Level (Level 3) vSphere support engineer. First lets talk about… Continue reading