Setting up a Splunk Server to Monitor a VMware Environment
In a previous article, I compared syslog servers and decided to use Splunk. Splunk is easy to set up as a generic Syslog server, but it can be a pain in the ass getting the winders machines to send to...
View ArticlevShield Zones – Some Serious Gotchas
OK..I’ll admit it: I am spoiled by the capabilities of vSphere. What other platform lets you schedule system updates that will occur unattended and without outages of the applications being used? I...
View ArticleDailyHypervisor Forums are online.
We have just launched our DailyHypervisor Forum located at http://dailyhypervisor.com/forum. Stop by, contribute and be a part of our community. The DH Forum is intended to be for all things cloud....
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VRealize Automation – vRA (vCAC) 6.2 – Hardening Guide Released
Advertise here with BSAThis is something that has been long sought after by many. The hardening guide is 38 pages long packed with hardening information for the vRA Appliance, IaaS Server, Identity...
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VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Cross Cloud Services–VMworld 2016 Keynote
Many of you are at VMworld 2016 and had the opportunity to be at the Keynote Live this morning. However there are those of us that are not at VMworld this year so I decided to put together some...
View ArticleSPLUNK! Goes the Syslog Server…
The use of a “syslog” server is important in today’s data center. Most network and SAN switches, along with Unix and Linux servers are capable of sending logging information to a syslog server. The...
View ArticleDear VMware: Pick a Common (SUPPORTED) Virtual Appliance OS…Please….
One of my pet peeves is that each virtual appliance coming out of VMware is that each different virtual appliance released by them is based on a different OS. Some of these do not even have documented...
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