- Push notifications - When a Growl notification pops up on your computer, Prowl sends it over Push.
- Beautiful, elegant list - A clean, easy-to-control list of your notifications.
- Redirections - Opening a push notification can launch a different application, or any website you want.
- Universal, powerful Prowl features an excellent iPad interface to complement you on whatever device you'd like.
- Quiet hours and "Do Not Disturb" - During quiet hours or DND, only the badge count is updated.
- No sounds, no alerts. Send only what you want - The Growl plugin can be configured to only send under conditions you specify.
Tuesday, July 23. 2013
Cool App - Prowl: Growl Client
Thursday, July 18. 2013
Building a Dashboard for a Virtual Infrastructure Administrator
You can customize your vCenter Operations Manager workspace to meet your specific needs. Depending on your access rights, you can add, delete, and arrange widgets on your dashboards, create new dashboards, import or export dashboards from other instances, edit widget configuration options, and configure widget interactions.
You typically create a dashboard by selecting a dashboard template. A dashboard template contains all of the information in a dashboard definition. You can also create a dashboard by defining and arranging the widgets that the dashboard contains. vCenter Operations Manager includes predefined dashboard templates. If the predefined templates do not meet your needs, you can create your own templates.
A widget is a pane on a dashboard that contains information about configured attributes, resources, applications, or the overall processes in your environment. Widgets can provide a holistic, end-to-end view of the health of all of the applications in your enterprise. If your user account has the necessary access rights, you can add and remove widgets from your dashboards.
You add a widget to a dashboard by editing the dashboard. You can add any widget to any dashboard. A dashboard typically contains widgets that show related information, such as different views of the performance of a particular group of resources or similar alerts for separate applications.
Go to the VMware Cloud Management Blog for more @vcenterops tech tips.
New Book - VMware View Security Essentials
What you will learn from this book:
- Create, use, and install SSL certificates
- Acquire a new skill set in troubleshooting security issues
- Learn about secure tunnelling your desktop connection with RDP and PCoIP
- Understand the concepts of pairing View security and transfer servers with View connection servers
- Understand the key aspects of blocking undesirable USB devices
Go to: VMware View Security Essentials
Tuesday, July 16. 2013
New Book - vSphere Performance Reporting with PowerCLI: Automating vSphere Performance Reports (VMware Press Technology)
Now, in vSphere Performance Monitoring with PowerCLI , Luc Dekens covers all you need to know to automate performance reporting for both vSphere hosts and individual VMware virtual machines. Responding to multiple requests for guidance on PowerCLI scripting, Dekens explains:
- How vSphere Performance Monitoring works
- Which metrics are available and how to use them most effectively
- How to track CPUs, memory, datastores, virtual disks, networks, and systems
- How to produce performance reports over any regular or custom period
- How to create on-demand reports to troubleshoot emerging problems
- How to optimize your reporting scripts
- How to work with esxtop from PowerCLI
- How to add graphics that make reports easier to understand
vSphere Performance Reporting with PowerCLI: Automating vSphere Performance Reports (VMware Press Technology)
Friday, July 12. 2013
Cool Gadget - Xtravirt's Advantage vPi
- Powerful built-in applications - Over a dozen utilities and including ESXCLI 5.1, vSphere Perl SDK, vSphere Console, vGhetto, vmkfstools and many more. Out-of-the-box pre-configured utilities for instant use including command-line tools for storage configuration
- Community driven - Provided by Xtravirt as an open source solution on a ‘not-for-sale’ basis, further driving innovation and our support of the industry and community
- Highly extensible - Leverage built-in utilities, or build your own scripts and apps for automating tasks
- SSH secure - Use directly from a RasPi device or proxy from any other device as a bastion style host, and secure by your own trusted networks and user security
Wednesday, July 10. 2013
New Book - vSphere High Performance Cookbook
- Understand VMM Scheduler, Cache aware CPU Scheduler, NUMA Aware CPU Scheduler, and so on during CPU Performance Design
- Learn about the virtual memory reclamation technique, monitoring host ballooning, and swapping activity
- Get to grips with different vSwitch load balancing, considerations for checksum offloading, VMDirectPath I/O, and so on
- Understand DRS algorithms, resource pool guidelines, SIOC threshold consideration, SDRS and its affinity/anti-affinity rules in DRS, SDRS, and resource control design
- Scale up and scale out cluster design for performance, FT and its caveats, application monitoring, DPM, host affinity/anti-affinity rules
- Design your vSphere storage based on various workloads and FC storage for best performance
- Choose the right platform while designing your vCenter Server, redundant vCenter design, vCenter SSO and its deployment