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Virtualization came as a boon to the IT industry. In turn, many organizations have benefited from making investments in setting up and leveraging a virtual infrastructure. Being able to show a strong ROI & delivering consistent performance and availability of a virtualized environment is one of the top priorities for any…
So - I am fine tuning the virtual environment in Orion - I got the Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor V1.10.0 when I updated (either) NPN or APM. When I customize the page with Assets, Summary, all looks good, but if I try to add Datastore IOPS, VM Latency, Virtualizaiton Storage Summary - I get the following…
System Center is a great platform to perform application monitoring and management, but it contains a few gaps where native functionality isn’t provided. Fortunately, System Center is an extensible platform and SysAdmins can leverage 3rd party tools that quickly fill technology gaps and often plug into the System Center…
The following is an actual description of a discussion one of our engineers, Matt Quick, had with a customer as told in his words. A customer using the product evaluation copy of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor (SAM) called us wanting an extension on the trial because “SAM was broke, keeps alerting a component…
Just like how the network admins keep a watch on the configuration changes of networking hardware, it is also important to monitor config changes in a virtual environment. While network configuration errors are definitely a nightmare and can cause the network to go down, config errors in a virtualized host or VM can impact…
Performance forms the basis of measurement of any system, process, or solution that is performing an action. How good the performance of the system is tells us how effective and beneficial it is in meeting its intended purpose. Monitoring performance by measuring performance indicators is the right way to keep performance…
One of the good parts of my job consists in helping customers benefit from implementing virtualization management solutions. In most cases they start looking for solutions only after they experience problems. Slow VMs, slow applications, you know…. Then what? Fire in the house. The first person to call is the “guy who…
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