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

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

Interviewing for VMware vSphere Support Engineer job role. Part 1: General IT awareness and interest in the technology

This is Part 1 of ‘Interviewing for VMware vSphere Support Engineer job role’ series of posts, which were described in my previous post here. In this post I will summarize the questions I ask when I want to understand if candidate has basic understanding of IT and if (s)he is motivated… Continue reading

Interviewing for VMware vSphere Support Engineer job role: Overview

It happened, that part of my job is to interview a lot of newcomers who are seeking opportunities at IBM Brno, CZ. When I was just starting with this activity, I was trying to search internet what questions were usually asked when interviewing VMware vSphere guys, what a common was etc. Unfortunately, although… Continue reading

IBM/Lenovo (Pure) Flex system and vSphere part1: Useless stuff

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In the last two years I was participating on the many designs, implementations and reviews of the vSphere on IBM/Lenovo Flex System or PureFlex, if you want to call like that. Therefore today I would like to share with you my preferred way of doing it right from vSphere perspective… Continue reading

Updated: Storage disconnects when using VAAI ATS on vSphere 5.5 Update2 and vSphere 6.0

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IBM has released a flash alert regarding a new behavior introduced in vSphere 5.5 Update2 and vSphere 6.0 where VAAI ATS (Atomic Test and Set or in the other words Hardware accelerated locking) is used for heartbeat I/O. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1005201 According to IBM: Due to the low timeout value for heartbeat… Continue reading

Network Design Rack Server x3850 X5 with fourteen 1 GbE Network Adapters

Network Design Rack Server x3850 X5 with fourteen 1 GbE Network Adapters Welcome, I want to share with you one of my older network design with 1 GbE network adapters. In this example we will speak about IBM System x3850 X5, 4x Xeon 10C E7-8860, 8x Memory Expansion Cards, RAM 64x16GB… Continue reading