Last week I released a post on configuring Cassandra for vCloud Director 9.0 metrics. As a refresher, one of the cool features released in vCloud Director SP 5.6.x was the ability to expose VM metrics that service providers could expose to their clients via a set of API calls. With the release of vCloud Director 9.0, the […] Read More
Configuring Cassandra for vCloud Director 9.0 Metrics
One of the cool features released in vCloud Director SP 5.6.x was the ability to expose VM metrics that service providers could expose to their clients via a set of API calls. Some service providers took advantage of this and where able to offer basic VM metrics to their tenants through customer written portals. Zettagrid […] Read More
Runecast: Overview and Service Provider Use Case
A few months ago I was lucky enough to spend time with a couple of the founders of Runecast, Stanimir Markov and Ched Smokovic and got to know a little more about their real time analytics platform for VMware based infrastructure. Soon after that I downloaded and deployed it in my lab and have been […] Read More
CloudPhysics: Rightsizing Intelligence and Cost Calculator for Private Cloud
CloudPhysics have been a little quiet over the past twelve or so months with focus shifting from presenting data via Cards to Dashboards and also focusing on delivering on boarding solutions for managed service provider partners that has resulted in their channel business growing successfully. Before VMworld they announced the release of their Cost Calculator for […] Read More
CloudPhysics Exploration Mode – New Host View
Late last year CloudPhysics released their VM Exploration mode feature which allowed for a detailed look into what was happening holistically to a VM with the ability to view key metrics and VM related events over an extended period of time. Last weekend CloudPhsyics extended this to also include Hosts. Extending Exploration Mode to include Hosts […] Read More
Firstlook: CloudPhysics Exploration Mode
During VMworld CloudPhysics released their new Dashboard Feature which saw a change of direction in the way CloudPhysics customers get presented with their data and was the first time Card Based analytics was not used to allow access to the wide array of metrics CloudPhysics stores in their data warehouses. I’ve been working closely with the […] Read More
#VMworld: First Look – CloudPhysics New Release
Over the past year the guys at CloudPhysics have been relatively quiet compared to the proceeding 3 years since they burst onto the Scene at VMworld 2012. The reason relative radio science has been had was that they have been busily working away on a revamp of their SaaS based Analytics platform…and the results are […] Read More
vCloud Director SP: VM Metrics Database Configuration Part 2
vCloud Director SP 5.6.x has the ability to export VM statistics to an external database source which can then be queried via a set of new API calls. I’ve gone through a couple of different posts on how to configure the Cassandra/KairosDB data platform. vCloud Director SP: VM Metrics Database Configuration Part 1 Installing and […] Read More
CloudPhysics: Enhanced Storage Analytics Cards [Part 1] – Datastore Contention
The guys at CloudPhysics have been busy behind the scenes of late working on improving an already great Analytic and Monitoring platform and recently I was able to preview a new enhanced set of Storage Analytic Cards. These cards are currently in Preview and with an official write up here by @esxtopGuru Which goes through the different […] Read More
First Look: CloudPhysics Card Designer
The boys at CloudPhysics are working hard behind the scenes at adding new features to their current stable of Analytic Cards based on data collected from their Probe VA’s hooked into vCenter environments. Check out this post on their DataStore Contention Card: For a general overview, go here: I am a massive fan of analytics and trend metrics and I use a […] Read More
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