VMworld 2011 Recap
Sunday, 23 October 2011 22:45
Last week I visited VMorld 2011 in Copenhagen. Copenhagen is a great city, I was very pleasently surprised. Clean streets, friendly and very relaxed people, children who seem to look fairly happy, no fat people in hamburger restaurants, a lot of kids wear sporty clothes of their sportclub, public transport is organized well, no fights to get in or out a train or metro, good restaurants and great architecture and design. And at VMworld a lot of the served food was healthy. I like Copenhagen.

This VMworld was my fourth in a row and every year it proves to be an exiting event, this year too. I visited around 14 break-out sessions which were really great. Technical deep dives, Q&A sessions with experts and best practices that are really useable. Also attended spectaculair general sessions with talks about how VMware sees the near future.

What impressed me the most? I don't know were to start. When you look at the future the Datacenters will become automated. vClouds will be used by everyone, big and small businesses. All the manual work done nowadays will be automated. Installing hosts, configuring swithes, deploying VM's, creating secure networks for organizations using the same datacenter, all actions are automized. Repairing is old-school, automatically replacing is faster and therefor more efficient. And the datacenter lights will be turned on just once a week to replace some physical parts.

Around 2014 we'll have phsical hosts capable of having 2 physical CPU's with each 16 cores, 300GB of RAM and running around 320 VM's. Company's running 200 virtual servers only need two physical hosts.

When you look at new products VMware anounced the intelligent vCenter Operations 5.0 tool for monitoring datacenters, this promises to be a great tool. Operations relies on third party tools to deliver the monitoring results. I had some talks with the vCenter Operations developpers and guess what: 360° Viewpoint is fully compatible!

Other newly announced products Applblast, Horizon and Octopus will make a world of change: deploying the same software and sharing files anywhere, anytime, anyplace. And independent of the device and platform you are using. Run Microsoft's Office from an iPad, MAC, Linux and Android device and share your files within seconds with your collegues on the other side of the world.

Another great product: VMware Go. It makes an assessment of your physical hosts in your network, determines which host is most appropiate to install the VMware hypervisor on, then it replaces the current OS with the VMware hypervisor and installs back the original Operating System and Apps as a VM on this hypervisor. Incredible. Really cool for small and mid-size business. Even the Borg will be impressed with this assimilation technology.

The break-sessions gave me a lot of insight into (Virtual) Memory Management, DRS, HA, vStorage, Storage vMotion, automating ESXi deployment, vSphere best practices, and the list goes on. Also the caveats of stretched clusters and DR and Disaster Prevention were very interesting.

And I came in 4th with the NetApp Cycling race, 1/100 of a second behind #3 and 8/100 of #2. The winner got a week of training on Mallorca with the pro's, I missed it by 0.9 seconds. I shifted wrong.. damn.

Conclusion: exiting times are waiting us! The cloud is yours.
 
Nieuw: Centreon 2.3 RC3
Sunday, 18 September 2011 00:00

De Centreon 2.3 RC3 candidate is uitgebracht. Wat zijn de belangrijkste nieuwe features:

  • Centreon broker vervangt NDO broker -> maakt MYSQL duplicatie mogelijk
  • RRD curves: meer mogelijkheden om grafieken te configureren
  • Downtime plannen voor services is nu mogelijk
  • Periodieke downtime plannen
  • Downtime plannen voor alle hosts in een hostgroup
  • URL "notes" te zien op tactical overview -> snel inloggen op systeem met probleem
  • Performance centreon_status database verbeterd
  • Performance opbouw webpagina's verbeterd
Kijk voor het complete changlog op de site van Centreon. De stable release zal na vrijgave worden geintegreerd in 360° Viewpoint.
 
Nieuw: Centreon 2.2 en Centreon Syslog 1.4
Monday, 23 May 2011 00:00

Centreon versie 2.2 is uitgebracht samen met Centreon Syslog 1.4 en inmiddels geïntegreerd in 360°Viewpoint. Wat zijn de belangrijkste nieuwe features:

  • Zoom in grafiek
  • Navigatie grafieken uitgebreid (vorige periode / volgende periode)
  • Grafieken exporteren
  • ACL groepen direct toekennen vanaf "contact form"
  • Nieuwe zoekvelden in Monitoring > Services pagina (zoek op host, service, plugin output)
  • Nieuw trap management systeem met status detectie regels
  • Nieuwe interface voor "command service configuratie" met omschrijving voor mogelijke te gebruiken argumenten
  • Context-aware help tooltips
  • Nieuw type objecten: Host Categories (voor ACL)
  • Resources filteren per "Poller"
  • Gebruik van Ajax op de Tactical overview pagina
  • Improved overview of monitoring status
Kijk voor het complete changlog op de site van Centreon.
 
Monitor EMC VNX, Clariion en Celerra met 360°Viewpoint
Tuesday, 29 March 2011 00:00

Goed nieuws voor eigenaren van EMC's nieuwe VNX of de bestaande Clariion en Celerra modellen. Het monitoren van deze storage oplossingen kan met 360°Viewpoint, zonder dat er licentiekosten nodig zijn!

VNX en Clariion:

  • SP status
  • Port status
  • Disk status
  • HBA status aangesloten hosts
  • Cache status
  • Foutmeldingen op de array

Celerra:

  • Anti Virus Checker
  • CIFS Servers
  • Checkpoints
  • Data Mover
  • File System
  • Hardware Status
  • Load
  • NFS Exports
  • Quota
  • Replication
  • en meer!

Investeren in 360°Viewpoint betekent vooral geld overhouden. Voor bijvoorbeeld storage uitbreidingen.
 
MS Exchange monitoring toegevoegd
Monday, 28 February 2011 21:08

Goed begin van de week, vandaag plugins toegevoegd aan 360° Viewpoint voor het monitoren van MS Exchange 2007 en 2010:

  • beschikbaarheid public folders en mailbox databases
  • replicatie databases
  • beschikbaarheid webmail functionaliteit
 
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