• Foglight For Virtualization Alert capability

    Hi all,

    I have the following metrics to be monitored in Foglight. Please let me know the right metrics to select in Foglight.

    1. VM Disk Consolidation Needed Alarm

    2. Network connectivity Lost 

    3. Lost Storage Path Redundancy

    4. Network Uplink redundancy…

  • How make virtual standby VM autostart when source VM is shutdowns or crashed?

    Hi Team,

    This is my first post in our quest community. I believe you may understand my query in the subject.

    i have hyper-v standalone server where some VM's are running and i did virtual standby using rapid recovery for one VM

    And i want failover…

  • How to read a text file (log) from a VMware VM with Windows OS monitoring, then take action when a word/phrase is written by a custom software ?

    the situation is like this.

    I have 1 VM with OS monitoring enabled with a specific (custom) service (sidsrv.exe) running on it.

    Attached to this VM, there is a USB HASP dongle (which is licensing a program), attached via USB anywhere 14 hardware from…

  • Why do i have to manage VMware? a new blog from Quest

     

    "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…

  • Use Foglight to monitor itself

    In recent projects, I did benefit quite a lot by setting up Foglight to monitor itself.

    And It is very easy to setup. See instructions below.

    • 1. Go to the Service Builder
    • 2. Add a new Category
    • 3. Give it a name (e.g. FMS, Foglight or Foglight Management…

  • Use a Foglight to monitor itself

    In recent projects, I did benefit quite a lot by setting up Foglight to monitor itself.

    And It is very easy to setup. See instructions below.

    • 1. Go to the Service Builder
    • 2. Add a new Category
    • 3. Give it a name (e.g. FMS, Foglight or Foglight Management…

  • eDocs: Search Upgraded, and We Won an Award

    As of the latest update, we've made some enhancements to the Foglight eDocs site to help provide you with a better experience when you search for information. We also have some news on an award recently won by the eDocs site.

    Search Engine Upgrad…

  • Introducing eDocs!

    We're pleased to introduce Quest eDocs, our new online documentation site.

    eDocs gives you access to fully searchable, browsable Foglight product documentation on the Web – helping you find answers to your questions about installing, setting up,…

  • eDocs: Enhancements to Search

    As of the latest update, we've made some enhancements to the Foglight eDocs site to help provide you with a better experience when you search for information.

    What's changed?

    • We upgraded our Search Results page, so your search results will…

  • VMware Cluster capacity over time

    Attached is a simple dashboard & report that I created that looks at one or a set of VMware Clusters to show growth of VMs over a given period of time as well as the utilization of the cluster during that period of time. This is used to help determine…

  • VMware Cluster capacity time until full

    This is what I've created that looks at VMware clusters and shows the current capacity and determines when it will run out of space over a given period of time. It's very helpful for me to understand when I need to consider adding resources to my clusters…