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
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
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
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’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
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
One of my client is considering to move the application from Solaris based OS under Linux OS and virtualize them using VMware vSphere. The requirement is to have the most efficient way how to monitor the application status and react on any failure asap. Taking into account such requirements, one of… Continue reading
