We live in a culture that emphasizes all the wrong metrics. Many people believe that getting fit includes the number on a scale, the number…
3 Reasons to Use a Service Account in Log Insight
I have been asked a few times when you may consider having a service account for the Log Insight UI. In general, all activities should…
How to turn VIM into an IDE
I am by no means a full-time software developer, but I find myself from time-to-time needing to dig into some code. While many developers use…
12 Reasons Why You Should Use Log Insight
I have gone from agents to forwarders so next up is the Log Insight server! Why should you use Log Insight? Let me give you…
Log Insight + PagerDuty
Today, Log Insight system notifications consist of both informational messages and critical system alert messages. In this post, I will discuss how to only get…
vCenter Server Locale and Log Insight
As you know, Log Insight supports integration with vSphere. One part of the integration is the collection of vCenter Server events, tasks and alarms. If…
Let’s Talk About CrossFit Part 2/2
In my first post about CrossFit, I talked about what I like and did not like about CrossFit. In this post, I would like to…
Upgrades: In-place versus Migration
I sat in on an interesting conversation recently where the question was raised whether upgrades for products should be done in-place versus via a migration.…
3 Additional Log Insight Clustering Use-cases
In Log Insight 2.0 a clustering feature was introduced. This feature made it possible to go above the configuration maximums of a single node, however…
VMworld 2015 Session Voting Now Open
It is that time of the year again, the VMworld 2015 session voting is now open!!! Read on to learn some interesting statistics for this…