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Monitoring Tintri VM Stores
This post has been updated to include a link to our Strategies and Best Practices for Virtualizing SQL Server guide. The widespread deployment of production SQL Servers in virtualized environments is moving forward at a rapid rate. Monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning storage systems supporting SQL Server…
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VMWare Workstation: "Internal Error"
Every so often I need to access a virtual machine using VMware Workstation, but unfortunately it decides that it doesn't want to do any work today and just pops up with a rather unhelpful "Internal Error" message. Thanks for that VMware; most enlightening. I guess I should at least be thankful that it was not an…
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Increasing the number of supported hypervisors in the wake of the massive increase in VMware licenses
Broadcom's price increases are forcing companies to rethink their virtualization strategies. VMan currently supports only VMware, Hyper-V and Nutanix hypervisors. Adding additional supported hypervisors such as Citrix XenServer will keep SolarWinds relative as companies look to migrate off VMware.
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Migrating to the Cloud — SolarWinds TechPod 001
With SolarWinds, IT pros are discovering a smarter way to manage apps, servers, databases, and hybrid clouds. The shift starts here. It can be a struggle to find the right mix of services for applications and any technology professional with portions of their workloads in someone else’s data center is going to need a game…
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SWQL question on Virtualization - VMWare
Hi, I have the following query that gives the list of all the VMs. SELECT n.Name as [VM],n.IPAddress,n.PowerState,n.GuestState ,Round(n.MemUsage, 0) AS [Memory] ,ROUND(n.CpuLoad, 0) as [CPULoad] ,n.BootTime,n.ProcessorCount,n.VDisksCount,n.DetailsUrl,n.NicCount,n.Status,h.HostName, h.DetailsUrl as [HostURL], d.Name as…
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Feature Release: May 2024 Summary
Spring (in the northern hemisphere) is truly underway and like flowers emerging from the soil, new features have been rolling into SolarWinds Observability. This month, we’re switching up the format of the release summary announcement to provide quicker access to the data you need. Thanks to everyone who’s provided…
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Feature Release: April 2024 Summary
As we ramp up for the first SolarWinds User Group of 2024, we’re pleased to share even more enhancements. SolarWinds Observability is designed with continuous improvement in mind, ensuring you always have access to the latest features and enhancements. The updates we provide are part of an ongoing effort to refine and…
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Feature Release: February 2024 Summary
It seems like the January release was packed, but we’re back for more enhancements this month. SolarWinds Observability is designed with continuous improvement in mind, ensuring you always have access to the latest features and enhancements. The updates we provide are part of an ongoing effort to refine and expand our…
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Nutanix Monitoring - Allow Cluster Status to be more configurable.
As it has been explained to me, when looking at the "Status" of a Nutanix cluster, the status is not reflecting the state of SolarWinds monitors, it is showing the state of the 800+ Nutanix monitors summed up in a single API call to the cluster for "Health Status". I would like to be able to configure how status is being…
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Old School vs New School IT Management: The Politics of Automation and Orchestration
An IT debate has been brewing for years now: the old school IT management, the one built on experience and practice versus the new school IT management, the one built on policy based management and analytic engines that leverage vendor knowledge base and learning algorithms. This debate is reminiscent of politics. IT is…