The VMworld 2013 US has come to an end and everyone is slowly leaving San Francisco. The crew of VMworldTV created an immense amount of videos which will give you a good insight in what has been happening. The content of the videos is ranging from "technical deep-dives" to "meet the teams" and "behind the scenes".
I want to give a BIG compliment to my co-host Jeremy van Doorn, yes the guy with the beard :) Also BIG thanks goes out to our producer Ian Oakley and his team over at WhitestoneMedia. These guys were working day and night to capture, edit and upload all the videos.
Iβve created a list with more than 40 videos, if you just want to get a quick overview I would recommend to watch the highlights and the final day video β theyβre real fun. Enjoy!!!
VMware vCenter Log Insight is the new solution of VMware for log management and analytics. It delivers superior technology for automated log management through log analytics, aggregation, and search, and an easy to use user interface. Log Insight provides the operational intelligence needed to proactively enable service levels and operational efficiency in dynamic hybrid cloud environments.
This VMware vCenter Log Insight Installation and Administration video provides information about installing, configuring, and administering VMware vCenter Log Insight, including how to deploy and configure the Log Insight vApp to receive log messages from other applications, how to import log files, how to modify the log storage policy, and how to switch log archiving on and off.
Organizations seeking a log analytics solution optimized for VMware environments can utilize VMware vCenter Log Insight, which features built-in knowledge and native support for VMware vSphere, including pre-built dashboards and reports based on best practices from VMware engineering and global support.
Integration between VMware vCenter Log Insight and VMware vCenter Operations further enables organizations to bring together and analyze both structured and unstructured data for end-to-end operations management. Directly from VMware vCenter Operations, administrators can launch VMware vCenter Log Insight in context for any object or alert to identify the root cause of an IT infrastructure issue.
VMware vCenter Log Insight also converts log data into KPIs that are fed directly to VMware vCenter Operations for administrators to view log details and alerts in a single dashboard.
In this video you will see the integration of Log Insight with the vCenter Operations Management platform. VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.7.1 introduces integration with vCenter Log Insight (GA available in Q3 2013) and the vCenter Web Cleint. Log Insight can be configured to send alerts to vCenter Operations Manager about vCenter Server objects. In the vSphere UI, vCenter Operations displays links to launch Log Insight in-context from the alerts details page and from the objects details page.
Integration of Log Insight with the vCenter Operations Management platform extends operational visibility and proactive management capabilities across infrastructure and applications in a dynamic, hybrid cloud environment. Integration also helps you maximize ROI and value by bringing unstructured data (such as syslog files) together with structured data (such as metrics and key performance indicators), offering a significantly enhanced solution for end-to-end operations management.
Although vCenter Log Insight can be used as a standalone log consolidation and analysis tool, itβs greatest strength (and biggest differentiator) is its tight integration with vCenter Server, vSphere, and vCenter Operations Manager. No other virtualization-management tool can give you such a complete view of your data center operations by correlating virtualization performance events and system log entries across the vSphere infrastructure.
Another of vCenter Log Insightβs great strengths is that it can also manage physical servers, storage, and network devices. vCenter Log Insight is extensible, because you can add third-party content packs (made up of numerous fields) or your own content packs.Both large enterprises and small and midsized businesses (SMBs) should use vCenter Log Insight to consolidate their log data to gain strong analytics and troubleshooting capabilities. VMware vCenter Log Insight is useful for monitoring, troubleshooting and securing your data center, and itβs quick to set up and enjoyable to use. In addition, vCenter Log Insight offers unique integration with vCenter Operations Manager to give you a complete view of your virtual infrastructure.
vCenter Operations Manager 5.7.1 is the latest release of VMware's integrated operations suite, converging performance, capacity, and configuration management. This new release introduces the following features and enhancements.
Performance Report Pack
This release introduces new performance report pack. By default, reports now include operations status report for line of business virtual machines, alert and performance trend, cluster utilization trend, average and peak virtual machine storage latency. With these reports you can get a consolidated operational status for a group of virtual machines and identify the clusters, datastores, or virtual machines have had performance problems. You can assess any impact to performance in terms of performance or health degradation, as well as determine which datastores had performance problems for the given time and identify the impacted virtual machines from a given datastore. For more information about the new performance reports, see the topic "Reporting Tools in vCenter Operations Manager" in the VMware vCenter Operations Manager Online Help.
Launch in Context
vCenter Operations Manager is enhanced to offer in-context application launch capability. Using this feature, you can configure a button or menu item to launch an external application using a URL in a specific context defined by the active UI element and selected object. For example, you can add an "Open in" drop-down menu that launches the vCenter Web user interface, navigating to the details of a selected virtual machine. In the same menu, there might be other items that launch into Hyperic or Log Insight for the same virtual machine.
vCenter Log Insight Integration
This release introduces integration with vCenter Log Insight (GA available in Q3 2013) and vCenter Operations Manager. Log Insight can be configured to send alerts to vCenter Operations Manager about vCenter Server objects. In the vSphere UI, vCenter Operations displays links to launch Log Insight in-context from the alerts details page and from the objects details page.
vSphere Dashboards in the Custom UI
The vSphere group in the Dashboards menu contains several default dashboards for managing virtual objects in a vSphere environment. These default dashboards are available to all members of the Administrators, Operators, and Users user groups. This release introduces the following default vSphere dashboards:
Troubleshooting Dashboard
VM Utilization Dashboard
VM Performance Dashboard
Host Utilization Dashboard
Cluster Utilization Dashboard
Datastore Performance Dashboard
Datastore Space Dashboard
Heatmaps Dashboard
Alerts Dashboard
Host Memory Dashboard
This video will show you some of the new features and how to upgrade to version 5.7.1. This procedure is applicable when updating to vCenter Operations Manager 5.7.1 vApp from the following product versions. vCenter Operations Manager 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.6, and 5.7.1, including any Hotfix versions.