With the introduction of vSphere 5, VMware created the concept of vRAM pools and added this as a critical component of purchasing a vSphere license. While vSphere is still licensed per CPU socket, now ...

I'm looking at ways to monitor our vSphere environment. Our primary monitoring app is nagios. I'm sure people have various opinions on Nagios, but it is what we have. It looks like there are a couple ...

In a modern data center, we find ourselves surrounded by a lot of metrics and systems that require attention, monitoring, alarms and event management.

Codenotary, the company behind the immutable immudb open source database and a software supply chain security service built on top of it, today announced that it is also adding a full-stack Kubernetes ...

So some time ago I was given a mandate to retire a bunch of old hardware and consolidate. This was/is still a wonderful idea, as under new management, all of a sudden there was an IT budget for the ...

Managing an IT infrastructure has become increasingly complex over the past decade. System admins don’t just have to worry about ensuring that a few dedicated servers tucked away in a closet are ...

Mobile devices are infiltrating our lives and changing our every behavior and habit-- from the way we shop, to the way we learn and even the way we make decisions. So, IT professionals are expected to ...

Monitoring virtual servers for availability, performance, health, and workload capacity has never been easy, but Operations Manager goes a long way toward that goal One of the downsides to ...