The purpose of the vSphere Mini Monitor is to provide a simple extension of the vSphere Web SDK to allow for real-time alerting of important user-based events on your vCenter server. It is not meant to replace a holistic monitoring platform. I wrote it to be secure, multithreaded, and lightweight. It is simply a cool geeky [...]
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This post is a big deal for me personally. It is the first public acknowledgment of a major change in my life. This blog post will be about me announcing this change; but it will also be about why I am doing it and what lessons I feel can be [...] So that is a few hours of my life dedicated to seeing how easy it is to utilize the VMware vSphere Web SDK. And from a datacenter guy I can definitely say that the documentation, community (thanks @sjin2008), and SDK made this a pretty easy task. I highly recommend everyone take your cool tool ideas and try something out [...] This post is inspired by this outstanding post by Chuck Hollis (@chuckhollis) and this one by Chad Sakac (@sakacc). Chuck mentions my favorite way to summarize what virtualization encompasses: “abstracts logical from physical”. What makes abstraction critical is that it breaks historical dependencies that develop as technologies are built over time. I have said this [...] Image via Wikipedia Many times I have seen situations where an application or process grows incrementally to a point where it is no longer able to meet it’s SLAs (whether official or imaginary). The cause of this can vary but is usually: Overworked/Unbalanced teams - Too much effort dedicated to new feature-add and not enough to [...] In my career I was a late starter and fast riser. It wasn’t too long ago I was plugging in monitors and crawling under desks (a job I still highly respect). I owe a lot of my success to my supportive Wife who while she was raising my children, let me spend hours reading complete [...] At my current employer we use a custom built ETL process for building business reporting and analysis data. Originally this started as a medium-sized Dell server with a full rack of local storage. As the criticality and scale of this resource grew, it outgrew the hardware it was on. The key to this server was [...] I am working on a NLB with Windows 2008 servers and Exchange 2007 Hub Transport and Client Access roles right now. There is a lot of good information out there but I thought I would list a couple links I found relevant to VMware and Exchange 2007 SP1: VMware & NLB |
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