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
The NSX word is being quiet famous now within the IT and none IT people, but this is totally from two different points of views. The IT people who are following what’s new on the Market will say “NSX is the network virtualization technology produced by VMware”, while the none… Continue reading
I am very happy that some members of our community stepped into close cooperation with www.virtualizationmatrix.com. This site is well known by broad technical community and used by many technical specialists to find the best match for their designs, use and adjustments of virtualized environments. All of that with an… Continue reading