Wow, VMworld 2014 is right around the corner! I have my session presentation submitted and just need to finish my demonstrations. I also have a…
Using Load Balancers in Transparent Mode – A Workaround
In my last post, I talked about two routing modes used on load balancers: NAT and transparent. As you may recall, I recommended against using transparent…
Log Insight Load Balancing: NAT vs. Transparency
In my posts about load balancer configuration for Log Insight, I have talked about configuring Network Address Translation (NAT). I would like to dive a…
Log Insight Cluster: Data Not Balanced Across Nodes
In Log Insight 2.0 a scale-out feature was introduced. The best practice when using scale-out is to configure an external load balancer in front of…
Heads Up! Updated Microsoft Content Packs Now Available
As you may have seen on the VMware Management blog, I recently announced updated Microsoft content packs for Log Insight. For those that are currently…
Log Insight: Importing Existing Logs
One question I get over and over again is can you / how do you import existing logs into Log Insight? The common use-cases are:…
Log Insight 2.0: Service Types
Log Insight 2.0 introduced the ability to scale out in addition to scale-up. With this change, a Log Insight instance is capable of playing different…
Time in Log Insight: Timezone
To finish the time in Log Insight blog series I would like to talk about timezones and more specifically how they are used and how…
Time in Log Insight: Events + Timestamps + Queries
Next up in the blog series about time in Log Insight I would like to answer the question, what time is used when you issue…
Time in Log Insight: Roles + Issues
This week I would like to take a look at time in Log Insight. Time plays several critical roles in Log Insight and if time…