TheVirtualist hosted StorMagic in Brno, CZ

Last week, we had an opportunity to host Nathan and Mark from StorMagic, UK, who came to Brno, CZ, to give us more insight to their SvSAN solution. Roman Macek already wrote about the solution here.  But why am I writing about something that is quite common to happen? Well, first of all, it… Continue reading

vSphere 6.0 whats new – Updated

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

vEXPERT 2015 – Congratulations For The Virtualist Team

Yesterday VMware announced the list 2015 vExperts. I would like to congratulate and thank to The Virtualist team for succeeding with 13 members to earn the vExpert 2015. While in the last year 6 of our The Virtualist team were announced in the list. The vExpert program is a non-technical certification where… Continue reading

x3850 X5 vs x3850 X6 comparison

Some of you might consider purchasing the Lenovo (formally IBM) System x servers. For the enterprise environments Lenovo offers x3850 X5 and x3850 X6 series. Since x3850 X5 will be discontinued from the market during this year, it makes sense to start considering x3850 X6. Such  type of server will… Continue reading

vMotion fails at 9 % on ESXi 5.0U3 running on IBM x3850 M2

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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

Docker – My Questions Answered

I’ve first heard about Docker during VMworld 2014, when partnership of VMware and Docker was announced. I am hard core VMware fan, so I became very interested of what Docker was. While reading about Docker I realized that the technology looked strangely familiar. I was thinking: “Containers? Application isolation? Wasn’t… Continue reading

Horizon View Adapter for vROps 6 – Installation and Configuration

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

vRealize Operations Manager – Windows Version – Installation

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