Last week we had an introductory technical meeting with Kemp Technologies and it was amazing to see such a great solution which I’m sure will grow a lot in the future. So, within this article I will try to speak about ADC and one of Kemp Technologies solutions: LoadMaster. The… Continue reading
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
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
After 9 years in IBM, the time has come for me to move on to a new adventure. I am joining the new and promising tech startup – Runecast. IBM is where I grew up professionally, as well as personally, and part of me will always be an IBMer. It… Continue reading
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
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
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
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
I was experiencing strange behavior with Virtual Machines running on the ESXi hypervisor caused by Cisco Nexus CSCui86494 bug. Client was reporting very slow or even unresponsive application with long waiting time. When I tried the basic ping there was a packet loss somewhere between 70 – 80%. What made… Continue reading
Few weeks ago I did attend web meeting about “Extending VMware vCenter to Hybrid Cloud” with Oded Haner. It get my curiosity as it was promising something i did not believe is possible. Even after seeing the presentation I had doubts. I decided I have to see and touch it,… Continue reading
