Category: VMware

Log Insight Snapshot Content Pack

Posted Michael Ryom1 CommentPosted in Log Insight

I’ve been running Log insight for some time now, first as part of the beta and then continued after it became GA, the last upgrade to 1.5 GA was a real pleaser. This tool has fast become one of my favorite VMware products, the insight you get into your environment is astonishing. This is the first tool I login to every morgning, way before vSphere client, vCops or even mail. So how can that be… Hopefully what comes next will make you understand what I mean   Log Insight Snapshot Content Pack So I’ve had some time to work with Log insight, […]

Log insight – vCOPS Content Pack

Posted Michael RyomLeave a commentPosted in Log Insight, Script, Vcops, vRops

Log insight – vCOPS Content Pack Log insight’s vCOPS Content Pack was released together with vCops 5.8, this content pack lets you get the same great insight into your vCops environment as log insight provides for your vSphere environment. There are three tasks to setting up vCops content pack for vCenter Log insight. Downloading and installing the content pack. Setting up vCops to syslog to Log insight. Connecting Log insight to vCops, so that Log insight can send alerts to vCops. Downloading and installing vCops content pack for Log insight If you have not already downloaded the content pack, lets start […]

Upgrade Log Insight

Posted Michael RyomLeave a commentPosted in Log Insight, VMware

Now that Log Insight 1.5 has to be come GA, its time to upgrade. So what new in 1.5 ? Among the most Important are: Active Directory support for authentication Significant query performance improvements by optimizing the execution of common queries User interface for upgrading from previous versions of Log Insight through Administration UI The rest can be read in the release notes here   Note the last bullet – Cause this is not how its done on 1.0, more on that later, first we need to have a look at security! (and if you haven’t downloaded the rpm file, now […]

vCops Forced password change

Posted Michael RyomLeave a commentPosted in Vcops, vRops

Short after vCops 5.8 was released I upgraded, all went smooth. But then the other day, I had to restart the appliance, after waiting a while and I was still not able to login to the web gui. I open up a console to the two VMs, only to see the both VMs were stuck at boot waiting for a password change. So I typed in the old password and a new one and shortly after vCops was up and running again.   Well as it turns out had I just read the release notes properly, I would have know […]

Consolidating datacenters

Posted Michael Ryom1 CommentPosted in Script, VMware

There is truly many ways and approaches to do server/datacenter consolidation… What i’m sharing here is just one way to do it, for one customer. But it has been done in so many ways for other customers – simple p2v and v2v from customer site in to the datacenter and onto more advanced approaches where some of the data is mirrored in via SAN replication/mirror and the rest is p2v or v2v’ed into datacenter. Like i said there are many ways to do this… What is this project, well quite simple it’s all about moving 800 VMs from one datacenter […]

vCops remote DB access

Posted Michael Ryom2 CommentsPosted in Vcops, VMware, vRops

UPDATE: I still get hit on this blog post – So just for the record this blog post is obsolete! If you are running vCops I suggest you upgrade to vRops asap and then take a look at my blog post around the vRops API – vRops API consumed with Powershell I posted this on twitter and postbin earlier this year, but now that I’ve got the site up and running, I thought I would write it here also. This started as a wish to get some of the data out of vCops in order to do a centralized capacity management. I […]