Coming soon to Capacity Director!
- Select a cluster
- Select a host or all hosts in the cluster
- Review, select and automate the placement recommendations
- Review, select and implement the resource optimizations
Done, a balanced virtual environment.
On my farm, I have a fairly large irrigation system (7 zones and a pump), all controlled by a Raspberry Pi single-board computer. I also have Raspberry Pi controllers for Amateur Radio activities, including a Weak Signal transmitter that uses only the…
This is the last part in this series of how to configure your alarms to do exactly what you want them to do. If you haven't had a chance, read part two of this series "Get Rid of That Noisy Alert Chatter! Part 2." Today, we will go over how…
I speak with administrators all the time that get alarms from objects they don’t care about, because in Foglight alarms generally apply to all your objects. An alarm comes in and you stop what you’re doing to check it out, and it’s usually about…
Often we hear from customers that they get so many alarms they don't have time to sort through them. The monitoring system they use fires too many alerts, and they just end up ‘white noise’ instead of actionable items. Are you getting too many alerts…
In most organizations, the stakes are high in the ongoing fight to keep technical infrastructures from hurting business. The infrastructure can’t be the reason a business flails or fails.
Think about your organization, and all the mechanizations…
The latest release of the Foglight for Oracle cartridge brings a new dashboard, customer enhancements and various fixes.
There is a new overview dashboard:
It is easier to read with an improved layout. I like the way the various areas are summarized…
In this third and final installment, I’ll show specifically how Foglight can help monitor the network…
The MOD Squad Column: It’s Groovy Man.
“If you meet these kids in an alley some night, don't fight ’em. They’re cops.”
They’re “The MOD Squad…”
There’s Linc, Julie and Pete:
The Mod Squad…
One of the nicest features in Foglight is the flexibility in creating beautiful drag and drop dashboards, here is a short video blog showing how you can create a fun and functional dashboard for Halloween.
This is one of those special Enterprise Monitoring use cases that I mentioned in my last blog post; The Not So Obvious Enterprise System Monitoring Essentials. While this is not the only way to do Foglight alert integration, it is what we felt…
The content of this was written by my…
Why do we think they’re more important than ever? Good question and the answer to that question will depend on the team members asking it:
You will see that our quest for a fully web-enabled client is full steam ahead! We just released Stat 5.8.1. This is a maintenance release that previews some cool new features and fine tuning of the infrastructure that will be a part of the upcoming Stat…
User-Defined Collections enable you to tell Foglight for SQL Server to go beyond the data points it collects out-of-the-box to also collect the results of queries that you define. So in addition to the vast amount of commonly-needed metrics that Foglight…
In a previous blog we showed how easy it is to send Docker Counters to Foglight, the next natural step is to alert when something goes wrong.
A reminder our script was called DockerMonitor.sh and the lines sending data to Foglight were
echo "TABLE DockerData…
Performance Analysis for SQL Server, and Performance Analysis for Oracle, have been long-standing tools in the our portfolio (The following article only applies to SQL Server and Oracle. Performance Investigator for DB2 has not yet been developed). When…
Changes are not only inevitable but they are also more complex and have a greater impact each time. Even the simplest modification can have a considerable effect on the virtual environment.
Generally, we don't realize how we have been impacted until…
Finally, the moment you’ve been waiting for: the Foglight quarterly maintenance release! That’s right, Foglight 5.7.5.5 was released on July 14 with a focus on customer-raised bugs, general quality of work, Foglight Management Server performance…
One of the pitfalls of creating custom rules for Foglight is failure to take into account assumptions being made when crafting a custom rule. As a result this can cause unexpected results when different assumptions are made, for example when the individual…
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
I was raised fifteen miles west of Concord, Massachusetts. More specifically, I was raised 14.9 miles west of Walden Pond and the…
Time is one of the scarcest resources in any kind of organization and we, as virtual systems administrators, are also affected by it. New tasks appear every day, our clients (internal and external) become more and more demanding, technology keeps on developing…
TWAIN, the standard protocol for communication between document scanning software, document scanners and other image capture devices has undergone steady change since the TWAIN initiative first launched in 1992. Not an acronym, the word TWAIN is said…
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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…