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…

According to a recent Red Hat survey of 950 IT leaders, 95% of the respondents stated that open source solutions are important to them. So, it’s no surprise that many organizations have adopted Red Hat Virtualization (RHV, also known as Red Hat Enterprise…

“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…

DC in the cloud

There could be many different reasons that require Domain Controller running in the cloud:

• Overal company direction to get rid of the on-prem data center with all of the supporting services including Active Directory, DNS and DHCP
• Legacy…

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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…

Anyone who’s responsible for system, application and data protection and recovery in a large, diverse IT environment knows how challenging it can be. Protecting enterprise data in a complex IT environment is time-consuming, cumbersome and often incomplete…

In our last post, Reducing virtual infrastructure costs while supercharging performance is possible, we discussed how IT professionals are often limited to either reducing cost, minimizing risk or improving service. But there are solutions that can help…

In my last post, I covered the four stages of capacity management, and talked about some of the reasons why managing your virtual capacity is equally as important as physical capacity management.  Now it’s time to talk specifically about how we can help…

The need for virtual capacity management is on the rise.  In Gartner’s ‘Market Guide for Capacity Management Tools’ report, published on January 30, 2015, it states “Through 2018, more than 30 percent of enterprises will use IT infrastructure capacity…

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…

Is now the right time to move to Windows 10?

The end-of-life for Windows 7 is set for 2020, which will be here before we know it. With all the recent ransomware attacks in the news lately, no one wants un-supported operating systems on their network.…

As IT professionals whose jobs are to protect data, we’re often forced to choose what matters most: Reduce cost, lessen risk or improve service. Implementing any one of these three options is easy if the other two are non-issues.

For example, if…

Change Analyzer has a really awesome feature called Change History.  The Change History View displays all of the vCenter change events that occurred to VMs, hosts, clusters, datastores, and resource pools within a selected environment, during a selected…

Hyper-V Virtual Switch Monitoring shows topology views from the Hyper-V Server to the Physical NIC(s), VMs to the Physical NIC(s),"Top VM" Send and Receive transfer rates and a very informative summary dashboard.

I often find Foglight for Virtualization environments that aren't taking full advantage of all the features of Foglight. One such feature is scheduled reports. Foglight comes with dozens of out-of-the-box reports waiting to be run.

Here is a list…

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…

Today I would like to share with you some content I created that can help an admin troubleshoot their environment from a single pane of glass.  No more bouncing between different performance monitoring tools.  No more trying to correlate different metrics…

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…

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…

So we’re finally here, it’s hockey season again.  The training camps have concluded and positions are set.  The cold weather in the north is setting in and time lace up the pond skates.  Each player has a responsibility and they know what job…

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…

The main purpose of Virtual Inventory Cartridge is to provide information about VMware virtual machines residing in the Virtual environment. This first version only covers VMware virtual infrastructure.

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The Cartridge has a dashboard included.…