Another more subtle, but in my opinion amazing and very powerful, feature in Log Insight 2.0 beta is machine learning. So what does machine learning…
VMworld 2014 public voting and my 6 sessions
As I am sure you heard, voting for VMworld 2014 sessions is now open! Based on my count this morning, it looks like 1,179 public…
ESXi: Got no data from process
I hit an interesting issue the other day when attempting to reconfigure remote syslog on some ESXi hosts. What followed was an exercise on troubleshooting…
Log Insight 2.0 Beta: Load Balancing
After covering the new scale-out and Windows agent features available in the Log Insight 2.0 beta, it is important to understand how to load balance…
Adding Virtual Disks and “Operating System not found”
I ran into a frustrating issue the other day when attempting to add multiple new virtual disks to an existing VM. Upon doing so, I…
Log Insight 2.0 Beta: Windows Agent
As you probably know, Windows does not natively support syslog. Several third party syslog agents exist for Windows, but each come with a list of…
Log Insight 2.0 Beta: Scale-out
Log Insight 1.x supported a scale-up model. Log Insight 2.0 Beta supports clustering of Log Insight nodes. I would like to walk through how to…
Changing VMware ESXi host logging level and why not to do it
A while back, I came across an entry from Michael White’s newsletter about changing VMware ESXi host logging levels: Changing VMware ESXi host logging level…
Log Insight 2.0 Beta Released!
Less than three months since the announcement of Log Insight 1.5 GA and VMware has announced Log Insight 2.0 Beta. With the beta comes a…
Using ovftool to deploy a vCloud template
I was attempting to deploy a VM as a vCloud template into a vCloud Director instance using ovftool and ran into an interesting problem. I…