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January 31, 2012  10:06 PM

Using Microsoft SCOM to Monitor VMware



Posted by: Raj Perumal
Hyper-V, Microsoft, nworks, nworks 5.7, plugin, R2, SCOM, Server 2008, System Center 2012, System Center Operations Manager 2007, vCenter, Veeam, Virtualization, vSphere

Hi folks! So you have Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and you want to monitor not just Hyper-V but VMware vSphere too? Some people are content to use a myriad of tools under multiple panes of glass, but If or one prefer the single pane of glass for my monitoring. Well the good...

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November 30, 2010  5:45 PM

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ



Posted by: Raj Perumal
CapacityIQ, ESX, ESXi, vCenter, VMWare, vSphere

Hi folks! So everyone and their dog is virtualizing right now. The question is, how do you know you are planning for the right capacity? How do you know if you are over or under provisioned? You can make a ball park guess and just eyeball it, but that isn't really a technically sound way of...

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February 28, 2010  9:04 PM

Are your physical servers ready to be virtualized?



Posted by: Raj Perumal
capacity planning, guided consolidation, vCenter, VMWare, vSphere

Hi folks, one of the common questions in virtualization is, are your physical servers ready? Also how do you tell if they are ready? Luckily VMware has the answer. VMware offers a feature called guided consolidation that comes with vCenter. You can install this from your VMware vCenter...

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May 31, 2009  7:26 PM

Upgrade ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4.0 without vCenter



Posted by: Raj Perumal
Upgrade ESXi 3.5 to ESXi4.0, upgrade ESXi to vSphere 4, Upgrade to vSphere 4.0, vCenter, vSphere client, vSphere host update utility, without vCenter

So ESXi 4.0 is now available and you want to get cracking learning everything you can about it. You go to upgrade it in your home environment or your test lab and you realize you can't do anything because you don't have vCenter. What do you do? Never fear! You can upgrade it anyway! What's the...

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