To date, VMware has had two primary brands being vCenter and vCloud, however many products did not technically fall under one or the other. A big…
Introducing the VMware EVO Family!
When it comes to infrastructure, VMware provides choice to its customers. To date, this has either been a “build your own” model or a converged…
Log Insight Calculator
I get many questions around Log Insight calculations, including how large to size a Log Insight instance/cluster, how much storage is necessary to meet retention…
Log Insight Cluster: Purposeful Data Imbalance
Recently, I talked about Log Insight cluster data imbalance and why you want to avoid it. In this post, I would like to discuss when…
My VMworld 2014 schedule
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:…