Archive for October, 2012

Discovering write latency problems with ESX datastores

Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

Our digs here at LogicMonitor are cozy. Being adjacent to sales, I get to hear our sales engineers work with new customers, and it’s not uncommon that a new customer gets a rude awakening when they first install LogicMonitor. Immediately, LogicMonitor starts showing warnings and alerts.  ”Can this be right ...

Will Hyper-V be Microsoft’s Xbox of the Enterprise Virtualization Space?

Monday, October 22nd, 2012

While most may not see Microsoft as a ‘disruptive innovator’ anymore, they seem to be claiming exactly that role in the enterprise hypervisor space, just as they did in gaming with the Xbox. As noted in "VMware, the bell tolls for thee, and Microsoft is ringing it", Hyper-V appears to ...

What’s with the different SNMP versions? s1, v2c, v3?

Friday, October 5th, 2012

We use snmp a lot, and know it well. However, not everyone of our customers has spent years working with OIDs in ASN.1, MIBs, Access types, and so on - and nor should they. (As we like to say, "Your monitoring solution should make your life easier, not harder.") So ...

The Batman Story from VMworld – LogicMonitor Rises

Monday, October 1st, 2012

VMworld 2012 took place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco a few weeks ago. The weather was surprisingly nice, but the real buzz was inside the convention hall.  We had a pod in the New Innovators section of the Vendor Expo in Moscone West.  It being our first VMworld ...