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Powering the cloud report – APTARE

9 November 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesMy briefing with APTARE, during the last Powering the cloud event, was with Nigel Houghton (Regional director of sales EMEA). APTARE is the leading independent provider of enterprise data center optimization software that helps companies maximize their storage environment, reduce TCO (total cost of ownership) and ensure that their critical data is protected. The company has a long history because was founded in 1993 by a team of enlightened computer software engineers that focused on designing and delivering transactional database systems that were massively scalable in two dimensions: capacity and performance.

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Veeam ONE Free edition

23 July 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteVeeam ONE is an integrated monitoring and reporting tool for virtual enviroment based on VMware vSphere and/or Microsoft Hyper-V. Also a free edition is available. In this video, Doug Hazelman, Vice President of Product Strategy at Veeam Software, talks about the new Veeam ONE v6: For more information: Veeam ONE Free Edition Veeam ONE: Free vs Full

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Opvizor – Configuration

13 July 2012
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn previous post we have described the installation of opvizor agent. After this step a configuration is needed in order to start the data collection. Configuration could be started after the installation phase or simple by open the browser on the local server web (and by choosing the Configure opvizor Agent Settings): Basically you need to specify the opvizor data (platform server is opvizor.com) included your user account credential. Also you can configure the email and proxy settings: Then you have to specify the vCenter Server configuration and credentials: Finally you can review the data […]

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Opvizor – Installation

12 July 2012
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the previous post I’ve introduced what is Opvizor, the architecture and the possible benefit of it. Now let’s see the install procedure. First you have to register to the main site, then you can download the latest version of the agent (that is just the data collector). Actually is a Windows service… I’ve asked why not a virtual appliance, but this is just a simple service and the VA options was too big (and not so required) compared to the single .EXE file. Installation is quite simple: just run the Windows Installer and step […]

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Opvizor – Monitoring a virtual enviroment

11 July 2012
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Reading Time: 3 minutesOpvizor is a monitoring tool for virtual environment (actually only vSphere environment) that can be used to analyze and audit the environment in an automated way and to pro-actively solve possible infrastructure bottlenecks and problem areas, before they cause performance degradation or system downtime. It’s not limited to the monitoring aspect, because it also provide other functions: Analyze: opvizor® ‘s expert system automatically identifies VMware configuration issues within protocol files, performance data and network security. Solve: With 400+ fully integrated, proven best practices, opvizor’s® expert system offers “live” advice to resolve identified and specific problems. […]

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vCenter Operations Management – Installation

27 June 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe core of vCenter Operations Management is a vApp with two VMs: the UI VM with the user interfaces and some data the analytic VM that is basically the data collect Both must stay in the same network and on the same cluster. Really curios the choice of the OpenVPN to handle communications between the VM… Maybe there is some future plan to build a multi-tenant solution? Or simple a single UI with multiple collectors? The installation is quite simple and is basically a OVF deployment. For more info see: Official deployment docs Using vCenter […]

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vCenter Operations Management – Introduction

26 June 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe vCenter Operations Management Suite is the product designed from VMware to monitor and manage a vSphere infrastructure (but not only). Similar as other VMware products there are several editions (for a detailed overview see the comparison page):

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