Not surprisingly, cloud migration – the movement of data and applications to the cloud from on-premises hardware – has been a significant trend for several years. Approximately 80-90% of companies today have cloud operations…

“I thought cloud migration was going to be easy,” you say. “The development and QA teams used to just create an account with a cloud provider like AWS or Azure, whip out a credit card and bang! they were in the cloud. What’s taking so long for us to get…

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As I listen to customers talk about migrating application workloads to the cloud, I notice that they’re on board with cloud migration and application migration, but they’re still concerned about…

Wow! What a year and what a way to wrap it up. Foglight for Virtualization 8.7.5 is out and with it brings a brand new SaaS offering from Quest that enables connectivity from any Foglight for Virtualization installation in the world to the cloud. Try…

While working with a large Silicon Valley electronic Payment company we ran into a special use case that was not covered by Foglight’s regular reporting.  The requirement came from a business unit that was sharing a VMWare Cluster…

When it comes to choosing a virtualization platform there are many questions to ask, and often it's not just the technical requirements; financial pressures will impact the decision as well. With the release of Windows Server 2016, Hyper-V and SCVMM,…

When working with new and existing Foglight customers as they are planning to upgrade from vCenter 5.x to vCenter 6.x Infrastructure, the question is usually always asked, "Does Foglight support monitoring vSAN?"  YES, Foglight supports monitoring…

One of the first questions that I like to ask any customers that I work with is “how many VMs do you have?” This gives me a good understanding of how large their environment is. Do they have less than a 1,000 VMs? 1,000 to 3,000 VMs? Or do they have…

A customer recently asked if it was possible for Foglight to integrate with Active Directory.  To take it a step further, use the Member(s) of a existing Active Directory Group to access Foglight and when the Group Member(s) login, they can only see VMware…

Coming soon to Capacity Director!

1. Select a cluster
2. Select a host or all hosts in the cluster
3. Review, select and automate the placement recommendations
4. Review, select and implement the resource optimizations

Done, a balanced virtual environment.

 “Why do I have to manage virtualization?” you ask yourself. “After all, I put all that effort into virtualizing our environment so that I could manage less: less hardware, less storage and less physical infrastructure. I want all my virtualization issues…

This upcoming VMworld in San Francisco will be my 5^th VMworld with Quest/Dell and never have I been this excited. For those of you who have been to VMworld, it is one of the best technology conferences run by any vendor and VMware has done an exemplary…

When we look at high availability capabilities built into Microsoft Exchange it becomes clear the available options vary depending on MS Exchange version. In this blog I would like to highlight the high availability options in Exchange 2007, 2010, and…

Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp have certainly saved your company’s bacon, haven’t they?

Users can log in to their desktop or run specific apps from anywhere on almost any device. Management is satisfied because productivity is up and you’re…

This is an exciting week for those of us on the Foglight team here at Dell World and Dell World Software User Forum 2015 in beautiful Austin Texas!

We have 13 sessions at the Software Forum portion of the conference dedicated to Foglight Performance Mo…

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How do you handle capacity management in your virtual environment?

If you find yourself frantically trying to keep an eye on VM density, disk space, service levels, resource utilization and – gulp – zombie VMs…