Last couple of weeks were definitely busy for the VMware developers. Not only they released vSphere 6.7 U1. They were also busy fixing two critical data corruption bugs: when running VM snapshots on VMFS after disk extends using vSAN 6.6 and later Another important fixed issue is VM escape possibility… Continue reading
In this article I would like to show you how to replace failed HDD (or SSD) drive in VMware vSAN cluster running on Softlayer Cloud. 1. Open web-client and navigate to: Hosts and Clusters -> choose Cluster -> Manage -> Settings -> Virtual SAN -> Disk Management You will see all… Continue reading
Cloud Storage Gateways category on WhatMatrix has been updated with the latest product’s details. 13 new products have been added and in total 49 products from 8 main Cloud Storage Gateway vendors are in the comparison. There is also one significant change in the comparison. Each product now shows whether… Continue reading
I’m in the middle of the project where I need to split up my environment into two vCenters so I decided to update part of it to vSphere 6.0 to ease up my work and operations tasks later on. I do have a stretched infrastructure across the datacenters including storage… Continue reading
After many months of really hard work of the entire WhatMatrix team it’s my pleasure to announce that Open Beta is live and site is accessible for everybody. What you can expect? Comparison website where you can select and compare multiple products and it’s features. As of today there are… Continue reading
IBM made an announcement last week that a new IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software V7.5.0 is coming soon (5th June 2015), which will bring supports for the features like vSphere VVols, HyperSwap, Microsoft ODX… If you haven’t heard yet, IBM replaced Storwize family naming earlier this year with Spectrum Virtualize Software.… Continue reading
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
Hello fans of virtualization. I have prepared series of documents in which I’m going to show you how to prepare your NetApp storage and create either NFS or iSCSI datastores on the storage side for your vSphere platform. I’m going to cover the following topics – Create vFiler, create volume,… Continue reading
For small and remote branch offices I was looking for a Replacement of VMware VSA. Our architecture decision for small remote branch office was to use VMware VSA, but it was discontinued and it is not possible to order it anymore. End of Availability VMware is announcing the End of Availability… Continue reading
