18 June 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Capacity Planning and Monitoring for VMware Virtual Infrastructure

If you have a growing Virtual Infrastructure, like most – it has out grown the monitoring tools integrated into VirtualCenter. VC has very limited capability to help resource managers and NOCs monitor and manage virtuals and this post will identify a few short falls. There are actually three categories this post could be broken up into, [...]

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Free Citrix XenServer or Free VMware ESXi

I remember two years ago when XenServer used to come as a free package in some Linux distributions, then Citrix scooped them up and I thought – all good things must come to an end. Well, today I was reading through the virtualization news that shows up on VMinstall.org and I noticed an article about [...]

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10 Biggies to Help Managers and Admins Avoid Virtualization Pit-Falls

10 Biggies to Help Managers and Admins Avoid Virtualization Pit-Falls I wish this information was available 10 years ago when I started working with virtualization, but then again, like many reading this, I thought I was an expert and didn’t need it. Now I see myself as a student because of how fast virtualization is changing. 1. [...]

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Veeam Monitor Captures My Attention

Veeam Monior is certainly the best monitoring software for VMware that I have ever evaluated. And, aside from it not being distributed as a virtual appliance, it’s worth the time for a simple install that requires a Windows server to host it. What’s Veeam Monitor’s Value? Want reports that are easy to customize and look professional, alerts [...]

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