There’s A Script for That
12/23/15 If there’s a chance to save time by using scripts or automation tools, I always take it. Over the years I’ve found that there are a set of common themes associated with th…
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Designing a Monitoring Solution: Where Are Your Eyes?
12/21/15 Contemporary monitoring solutions are no different from any other distributed application in your environment. Even a small-scale deployment can include multiple component…
The Factors That Impact Availability, Visualized
12/21/15 We all want our systems to have high availability, but sometimes the exact meaning of “high availability” isn’t very clearly defined. However, availability — like scalabil…
How Does your VMware Environment Look Today? A Rationale for the VOA
12/16/15 VMware® as a technology has a huge potential to sprawl. Have you created an environment for testing purposes? Have projects required a number of guest VMs to be built, but…
8 Reasons Why ChatOps Isn’t Working At Your Company
12/16/15 About a year and half ago I published a blog post about ChatOps at VividCortex (if you’re unfamiliar with ChatOps, that original post still serves as a good primer). At th…
On Becoming a Virtualization Professional
12/14/15 I’ve been a VMware® evangelist and virtualization advocate for a decade. Even before I first started using VMware—by accident, I’ll admit—I’ve had the (dis?)advantage of w…
SDN, Network Management, and You
12/08/15 The industry has been busy discussing the nature of SDN, or software-defined networking. They are wondering if SDN is Openflow. Or maybe it just programs the network throu…
Configuring and Monitoring the Next Gen Network
12/08/15 In Intent-Based Networking – A Must for SDN, an article published on this site, Faisal Khan makes the very valid point that “SDN is about making networking more flexible a…
See the Details with 1-Second Resolution Data
12/05/15 We’ve talked a lot about the high-resolution data we capture, but if you haven’t experienced it yourself, it might be a little abstract. Here, look at the difference betwe…
Is That Query Bad?
12/03/15 This post is part of an ongoing series on the best practices for effective and insightful database monitoring. Much of what’s covered in these posts is not intuitive, yet …
How to Hyper-converge Effectively
12/02/15 Hyper-convergence brings all that together with software, and can bring about more capabilities, such as backups, disaster recovery, performance assurance, and more. So, h…
The Benefits of Integrating Monitoring with ITSM Solutions
12/01/15 When you evaluate a monitoring solution for your environment, consider the solution’s ability to integrate with other applications and services. Most notably, a monitoring…