The NSX for vSphere Log Insight Content Pack provides powerful operational reporting and alerting visibility for all sources of log data within NSX.
Each major NSX functions (logical switching, routing, distributed firewalls, VXLAN gateways, and edge services) are represented within this content pack via custom dashboards, filters, and alerts.
This graphically rich, content pack is essential for analyzing and identifying NSX configuration, performance, security and trend related problems. The twelve NSX dashboards are easily selectable with intuitive mouse clicks.
NSX log data is quickly sorted based upon user defined time intervals, and within seconds the data is presented graphically via bar graphs, pie charts and raw data collection widgets.
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Thursday, November 27. 2014
Reference Architecture: Creating a VMware Software-Defined Data Center
This reference architecture describes an implementation of a software-defined data center (SDDC) usingVMware vCloud® Suite Enterprise 5.8, VMware NSX for vSphere 6.1, VMware IT Business Management Suite Standard Edition 1.1, and VMware vCenter Log Insight 2.0 to create an SDDC.
This SDDC implementation is based on real-world scenarios, user workloads, and infrastructure system configurations. The configuration uses industry-standard servers, IP-based storage, and 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networking to support a scalable and redundant architecture.
This SDDC implementation is based on real-world scenarios, user workloads, and infrastructure system configurations. The configuration uses industry-standard servers, IP-based storage, and 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networking to support a scalable and redundant architecture.
An overview of the solution and the logical architecture as well as results of the tested physical implementation are provided. Consult with your VMware representative as to how to modify the architecture to suit your business needs.
Wednesday, August 27. 2014
VMworld TV deep dives into Log Insight
Join Eric Sloof as he dons his virtual network snorkel and goes for a swim in the murky waters of VMware's Log Insight.
Monday, August 25. 2014
VMware EVO: RAIL Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance
With EVO: RAIL, customers experience a radically new, end-to-end user experience that drives simplicity. EVO: RAIL Deployment, Configuration, and Management streamline initial setup and ongoing operations.
Deployment - EVO: RAIL deployment is simple, with just four steps:
- Configure your network (VLANs and top-of-rack switch). Instructions are provided in the EVO: RAIL User Guide.
- Rack and cable.
- Power on EVO: RAIL.
- Connect a laptop to the TOR switch, point your browser to EVO: RAIL, and answer configuration questions.
Within minutes EVO: RAIL is configured and ready to create VMs!
Configuration - EVO: RAIL Configuration has three options: Just Go! or Customize Me! or Upload Configuration File.
With Just Go!, EVO: RAIL automatically configures a default set of IP addresses and hostnames for extremely fast deployment in a green-field scenario. Configure your TOR switch and click the Just Go! button. All you have to create are two passwords.
With Customize Me!, customers can specify the following configuration parameters:
- Hostnames for vCenter Server and ESXiTM hosts naming scheme • Networking (IP ranges and/or VLAN ID): ESXi, Virtual SAN, vSphere vMotion®, vCenter Server, VM Networks
- Passwords: ESXi hosts and vCenter Server, optional Active Directory authentication
- Globals: Time zone; your existing NTP, DNS, and Proxy servers; logging: vCenter Log Insight or third-party syslog server
With Upload Configuration File, an existing json configuration file can be selected and uploaded.
EVO: RAIL implements data services, creates the new ESXi hosts, and configures vCenter Server. The final screen contains the link to EVO: RAIL Management.
Management EVO: RAIL Management provides a dashboard to view all virtual machines and arrange them with sorting and filtering. Users create virtual machines with only a few clicks to select the guest OS, VM size, VLAN, and security options. EVO: RAIL simplifies virtual machine sizing by offering single-click small, medium, and large configurations, as well as single-click security policies.
EVO: RAIL Management revolutionizes live compute management with health monitors for CPU, memory, storage, and VM usage for entire EVO: RAIL clusters, individual appliances, and individual nodes. EVO: RAIL Management streamlines log collection, licensing, and offers language choice for globalization. It also provides notifications and tracks tasks.
EVO: RAIL Management radically simplifies scale-out. Increasing compute, networking, and storage resources is as easy as powering up a new appliance to join an existing EVO: RAIL cluster. EVO: RAIL automatically distributes the configuration to seamlessly add new appliances with zero additional configuration.
EVO: RAIL Management allows users to check for vCenter, ESXi, and EVO: RAIL software upgrades. EVO: RAIL downloads and installs any patches for these VMware products. With a minimum of four independent ESXi hosts in an EVO: RAIL cluster, updates are non-disruptive and require zero downtime.
EVO: RAIL Software
The EVO: RAIL software bundle is fully loaded onto the EVO: RAIL qualified partner’s hardware. This software bundle is comprised of:
- EVO: RAIL Deployment, Configuration, and Management • vSphere Enterprise Plus, including ESXi for compute
- VMware Virtual SAN for storage
- vCenter Server
- vCenter Log InsightTM
EVO: RAIL is optimized for the new VMware user as well as for experienced administrators. Minimal IT experience is required to deploy, configure, and manage EVO: RAIL, allowing it to be used where there is limited or no IT staff on-site. As EVO: RAIL utilizes VMware’s core products, administrators can apply existing VMware knowledge, best practices, and processes.
Thursday, July 10. 2014
Free e-learning course - VMware Log Insight [V2.0] Fundamentals
This Log Insight course provides information about the Log Insight solution and describes how it works, its architecture, installation, configuration, and how to use it for log analysis. The course consists of the following self-paced modules:
- Log Insight v2.0 Overview: This module provides an overview of Log Insight, including use cases and architecture.
- Log Insight v2.0 Installation and Configuration: This module provides information the installation and configuration of Log Insight, including installation and configuration of the Windows Agent.
- Log Insight v2.0 Analysis: This module provides information about how to use Log Insight for log analysis, including new tools available in version 2.0.
Thursday, May 8. 2014
Upcoming New Book - VMware Network Virtualization: Connectivity for the Software Designed Data Center
Network and data center virtualization offer today's IT organizations immense opportunities to reduce costs, improve agility, and drive business value. But the field is evolving at a breakneck pace: many decision-makers and implementers are struggling to understand and choose among the options now available to them.
This book will cover both the "how" and the "why" of network virtualization. You'll learn how it works, which technologies comprise it, where to find your best opportunities to gain value, and how to leverage it your own enterprise. Replete with use cases and specific examples, VMware Network Virtualization offers unprecedented insight into how network virtualization works in the context of the datacenter. Coverage includes:
This book will cover both the "how" and the "why" of network virtualization. You'll learn how it works, which technologies comprise it, where to find your best opportunities to gain value, and how to leverage it your own enterprise. Replete with use cases and specific examples, VMware Network Virtualization offers unprecedented insight into how network virtualization works in the context of the datacenter. Coverage includes:
- The history, evolution, status, and future of Virtual Networking and Software Defined Networks
- Prerequisites and preparations for effective network virtualization
- Using next-generation data center network design to improve scale, availability, resiliency, and performance
- The rise of the virtual data center: reducing equipment and management costs, while improving user experience
- Key characteristics of the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)
- Using network virtualization to provide secure, efficient application access across organizations and functions
- Migrating workloads without changing IP addresses or networks
- VMware technologies for network virtualization: vSphere, vCNS, NVP, CloudStack, vCloud Director and more
- Architectural considerations: public/private clouds, IaaS, and hybrid tenancy
- Automation and integration opportunities