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…

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.

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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…