Thank you! TheVirtualist.org scored in the voting as follows: new blogs – 5th place, and overall – 62nd place (out of 411). Full results in here: http://vsphere-land.com/news/top-vblog-2015-full-results.html The result is very good considering the blog start date (July 2014) and the specific area of the virtualization business the contributors come from. Let… Continue reading
Recently I wrote an article about a new VMware fling VM Resource and Availability Service which can be used to simulate failure of one or more ESXi hosts. In this article I’ll describe how to associate the DRS dump with the particular cluster, using the Managed Object Reference ID (MoRef… Continue reading
VMware Horizon 6.1 has been released a week ago, providing a bunch of new features and full support of vSphere 6.0. Here is a list with the main improvements of the new version of the VMware VDI solution: NVIDIA GRID vGPU (shared GPU hardware acceleration) Smart Card for RDS desktops… Continue reading
Daily life becomes our Zen training. — Shunryu Suzuki Citrix XenServer isn’t as popular as ESXi or Hyper-V. But if you already use Citrix products, you should think of Xen because you already have expertise with this vendor. 1. Brief history On 13th January 2015 Citrix released XenServer 6.5, offering a… Continue reading
During the last week I was working with my colleague Nikolay Nikolov on a VDI design solution using IBM FlashSystem storage. The old solution using SSD local disks was experiencing the login time for VDI users up to 4 mins. After case analyzing we found high number of IOPS which was… Continue reading
Finally, waiting is over, vSphere 6 is now available for download on My VMware ! Also, VMware Cloud Suite, vSAN, vRealize Suite were released and they can be downloaded from same place. Bellow are some of released VMware components, worth spending some time evaluating. VMware ESXi 6.0.0 VMware vCenter… Continue reading
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
To all fans of our blogging platform www.thevirtualist.org, we are happy to run for a place in Top vBlog 2015 contest and even happier in case you support us and click the poll voting for our platform. We strive to bring quality content based on our practical experience to you… Continue reading