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…
CTRL Character Passthrough in vSphere Web Client
As you should know, the vSphere fat client (Windows-based) is going away. As such, you should be using the vSphere web client whenever possible. Unfortunately,…
Log Insight: Virtual Disk Size on Virtual Appliance
I have received some questions in regards to the virtual disk size on the Log Insight virtual appliance that I wanted to address. If you…
Log Insight: Enabling TLS for SMTP
If you configure SMTP on Log Insight with the STARTTLS option and send a test email you will receive the following error message: unable to…
Switching to the PVSCSI Controller
I recently was doing some performance tests and wanted to try out the VMware paravirtual SCSI controller (PVSCSI). The VM I was testing was running…
Automating the Configuration of Log Insight
Now that you know how to automate the deployment of Log Insight, you are probably wondering how to automate the configuration of Log Insight. Automating the…