Archive for the ‘Storage’ Category

Visualizing NetApp disk performance and latency

Monday, March 19th, 2012

When monitoring a NetApp, the thing that matters is (for most applications) the latency of requests on a volume (or LUN.) Easy enough to get - with LogicMonitor it's graphed and alerted on automatically, for every volume. But of course when there is an issue, the focus changes to why there is ...

Right sizing infrastructure for VMWare migrations

Friday, December 9th, 2011

I was invited to talk to an MSP peer group the other week, and during the presentation, one of the group members who was a LogicMonitor customer described a way they use LogicMonitor to solve a previously hard-to-solve VMWare operational issue.

Netapp Monitoring – too much of a good thing?

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

One way LogicMonitor is different from other NetApp monitoring systems (other than being hosted monitoring, and being able to monitor the complete array of systems found in a datacenter - from AC units, through virtualization, OS's to applications like MongoDB) is that we default to "monitoring" on". i.e. we assume you ...