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Many of us have still doubts how to handle traffic like VMotion or iSCSI. Should I use L2 and connection or can I route such traffic over L3? In the past VMotion over L3 was not officially [...]

Backups are critical components of your overall infrastructure design and operation. I have seen lot of cases where customer did not run any backup at all and once they suffer data lost their [...]

It was huge and it was great! For the first time I have a chance to attend VMworld 2017 in Barcelona and I really enjoy that. What I really liked was roundtables where you can easily discuss [...]

I am working on my brand-new lab in OVH.net and I have encountered strange storage problems related to my SSDs. I have observer high latencies as well as slow write rates to the storage. First I [...]

During one of my recent project we had to figure out which storage solution we will use for our VMware and OpenStack environment. One of the product we are considering is EMC ScaleIO software [...]

VMworld 2016 in Barcelona just stared today but there are presentations from Las Vegas already available. You need to register to access them but few interesting ones are available on YouTube as [...]

VMware announced new version of VSAN 6.2 few days ago. In the past I personally don’t like this product that much because it was quite new but from version 6.0 I personally think that it is [...]

Last step in our mini-series will be to mount our newly created volume to our vSphere infrastructure. It is quite straight forward process but there are some minor gotchas – if you miss them you [...]

In previous article we have looked at the basic features of HPE StoreVirtual VSA as well as the installation to the vSphere environment. Today I would like to show you how to actually configure a [...]

As everybody know every VMware cluster relies on stable shared storage. VMs are running from this shared storage and HA can restart the VMs when we have some ESXi failure. So the point is that we [...]