Couple of days ago, a very critical OpenSSL vulnerability came to light. The vulnerability, called Heartbleed, affects some versions of the OpenSSL library (but not all of them).  The vulnerability was introduced in the OpenSSL version 1.0.1 and out since…

We are starting a BETA testing cycle in August 2014 for our upcoming Foglight for Storage Management v3.2 release. This next release will include the following new features:

• Support for HP 3PAR storage arrays
• Deployment via VMWare virtual appliance to…

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…

With the launch of Foglight for Storage Management 3.2, we have added support for HP 3PAR storage arrays. In this BLOG, I’ll present some screenshots that illustrate the information that we’re able to collect.

Foglight for Storage Management…

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…

As you may have seen, our friends at Bocada today announced that Vision, their new solution focused on managing the complexities of backup and recovery in virtual environments, now supports vRanger®, Quest’s market-leading, vSphere 5 certified…

I know, the headline is a bit premature – the End of Support deadline isn’t for another 25 days and a handful of hours. But if you’re not essentially finished with your Windows Server 2003 migration projects, you’re going to miss that deadline.…

SCVMM is a solution for configuring and managing virtualization host(s), storage, networking, virtual machines and services to private clouds.

Foglight provides a SCVMM Server Summary Dashboard that allows you to view the health of the related items …

You don’t have to be faster than a speeding bullet or more powerful than a locomotive to become a data protection hero. You simply need to address the when, where, why and how of protecting your organization’s applications and data against various threats…

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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Capacity management in your virtual environment is a balancing act.

Take the two athletes in the photo, for example. The one on the left can represent the unlimited desires of the business – the workload on the virtual machine – and the…

Photo credit: Steve Baker (CC BY-ND 2.0)

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…

The average systems administrator spends up to 75 percent of their time – and sometimes even more - just trying to keep the business functions going. This doesn’t leave much time for learning, growth or innovation. However, there is a way to reduce the…

We recently commissioned Principled Technologies to conduct an independent lab test comparing Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition, with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. Foglight was the clear leader in all three categories of functionality…

We recently commissioned Principled Technologies to conduct an independent lab test comparing Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition, with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. Foglight was the clear leader in all three categories of functionality…