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Requesting for Nutanix AHV to be added to the supported hypervisor list for the SEM VM appliance. Currently only VMware and Hyper-V are mentioned: SEM 2020.4 system requirements It has been mentioned on the product forum in the past: Hosting SEM appliance on Nutanix - Forum - Security Event Manager (SEM) - THWACK
Recently, the Geeks at the SolarWinds Lab landed themselves in a bit of a pickle. Which one is faster – installing a virtual appliance with Hyper-V or VMware? Our Head Geeks, Lawrence Garvin and Patrick Hubbard, were certain that there was only one way to get to the bottom of the situation – A Virtual Application…
vSphere, which many consider to be the flagship product of VMware, is virtualization software with the vCenter management software and its ESXi hypervisor. vSphere is available in three different licenses: vSphere Standard, vSphere Enterprise Plus, and vSphere Platinum. Each comes with a different cost and set of features.…
This is the first of a five-part series on HCI. I hope you enjoy and this prompts discussion. Please feel free to reach out to me, either here or via Twitter at @MBLeib. What Is Hyperconverged Infrastructure? Hyperconverged infrastructure is one of the new hot areas of technology in the IT data center space. Like most…
I would like to request that "Events" typically displayed by vCenter when managed using the vSphere client be able to be analyzed by LEM. This is beneficial since the ESXi event logging does not not include operational events from the hypervisor in a vCenter managed environment, as a result actions taken against guest VMs…
A storage system on its own is not useful. Sure, it can store data, but how are you going to put any data on it? Or read back the data that you just stored? You need to connect clients to your storage system. For this post, let’s assume that we are using block protocols like iSCSI or traditional block storage systems. This…
Over the past 5 postings, I’ve talked about some trends that we have seen happening and gaining traction within the Cloud space. I’ve spoken of : * Virtualization – Where established trends toward virtualization, particularly VMWare, have been challenged by a variety of newcomers, who’s market share continues to grow. Most…
I saw the graphs created on Solarwinds for monitoring the VMware ESX hosts. I had similar results with Cacti trending. When you queried the host via SNMP, you are only interfacing with the ESX Service Console not the hypervisor. It appears that with VMware ESX 3.x and above, specific SNMP subagent which allowed…
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