In trying to tighten up some monitoring issues in the current environment I’m working in, I did what most people would think to do – I turned on some alarms in vCenter, specifically “Host connection and power state.” I kinda want to know when hosts just drop off the face of the planet, right? To [...]
A job or two ago, I worked in an organization that had a definite need for monitoring but a budget that couldn’t keep up with the expansion of the virtual infrastructure we were building out. After searching around for various options, I set up a Zenoss Core server, loaded up some needed Zenpacks, and we [...]
So this is not really news, but is now big official news: the 4.1 release of vSphere is the last supported version of ESX. VMware is finally dropping the Service Console. Moving forward, ESXi will be the core hypervisor technology at the center of VMware’s virtualization strategy (for now). Can’t say I disagree, especially if [...]