HDD failed in vSAN cluster (Softlayer) – how to replace it

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

Update of Cloud Storage Gateways category on WhatMatrix

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

Pool Side SSL with vCloud Air Load Banacer

Recently I had an interesting situation where a specific error message occurs where standard approach for Load Balancer was used This document is to explain how to complete HTTPS over vCloud Air Load Balancer throughout to Web servers using Pool Side SSL. Usually we use Load Balancer with the following configuration:… Continue reading

Cloud Storage Gateways Comparison on WhatMatrix

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

ALERT: VENOM Vulnerability CVE-2015-3456, Clouds Exposed!

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Crowdstrike disclosed a serious VM Escape vulnerability – codename VENOM, CVE-2015-3456 which has been around here since 2004. This one is especially serious because it is affecting the VMs in their default configuration and could be also affecting thousands of the VMs in cloud. This vulnerability may allow an attacker… Continue reading

CEE RTE – Regional Technical Exchange 2015

Central and Eastern Europe Regional Technical Exchange 2015 (CEE RTE) Last week I did have an opportunity to join an IBM RTE conference held in Prague, hotel Ambassador (Zlata Husa). CEE RTE started in 2010 and it’s a yearly event, for me it was the first time to attend. Event was… Continue reading