The computer industry is on the major transition due to the server consolidation and virtualization products on the market. Cisco is commonly known for networking components like switches, routers and IP phones. But in 2009 , they have entered in to the X86 server market on their own style with data centre virtualization and consolidation methods. There was […]
Archives for 2015
How to Measure the bandwidth between Linux / Solaris hosts ?
All the new servers are shipping with 10 Gbps built-in network adapters . At the same time, servers are virtualized and one physical server may hosts many virtual servers. For an example, VMware ESXi hypervisor will be directly installed on physical server and multiple VM’s will be created on top of that. So all the VM’s will share the same 10Gbps […]
Cloudstats.me – The Next-Gen Server Monitoring Platform
Cloudstats.me is the Next-Gen server/website monitoring platform which suits for Linux, windows servers and enterprise websites. I have been worked with several enterprise monitoring tools but Cloudstats stands out with it’s simplicity. You no need to spend thousands of dollors to buy the monitoring software and hire the resources to setup the monitoring services platform. Also […]
How to Generate and Measure IOPS in VMware Guest ?
Are you a system architect ? Are you planning to convert the physical servers to VM ? If yes, perform the IOPS test on the physical machines prior to migrating it to VM. If you have test virtual machine in the targeted VMware infrastructure, perform the similar IOPS test to compare the results. If the […]
How to Connect vBenchmark to vCenter Server ?
Once you have deployed the vBenchmark appliance , you can access the web portal using the vBenchmark IP address which is configured automatically (DHCP) while deploying it.(You can find the IP address of the appliance in the VM console). In vBenchmark webpage, you need to enter the VMware vCenter IP address/Hostname and credentials to generate the benchmark […]
How to Deploy vBenchmark on VMware vSphere ?
vBenchmark is an appliance which provides the web interface to measure the performance of your VMware virtual infrastructure. It helps to identify the efficient resource utilization on your VMware environment. It will also show you averages across your environment, such as the average configured amount of RAM/CPU per VM or GB of storage consumed. By reading your environment, it shows the […]
VMRC – Standalone VMware Remote Console
Due to NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) deprecation on all the modern browsers , VMware need to find the alternate solution to use the vSphere Web-client for launching the VM console, upload & download the files from datastore and use of windows authentication on the browser(To use windows login in browser). According to the Google announcement, […]
Unable to upload files using vSphere Web client
I have been scratching my head from yesterday to upload the ISO files to VMware vSphere ESXi datastore using vSphere web-client 5.x/6.x(it worked earlier and suddenly stopped working). The web-client shows that , we need to install “vSphere client integration plugin” to upload the files, launch VM console and deploy the OVA. But in Laptop […]
Vblock – converged infrastructure solutions
What is Converged infrastructure systems ? It is nothing but merging all the infrastructure in to one box. Converged infrastructure systems normally comes as bundle, with servers, storage, network switches and required software to manage infrastructure, orchestration and automation. These are well tested machines and works great with . Converged infrastructure systems are slowly getting to the market to […]
How to convert controller disk naming to SSD on Solaris ?
Have you ever been analysed the SAR(System activity reporter) reports on Solaris server for the disk performance issues ? If you would have done that , you might noticed that all the disks & LUN’s will be shown as “ssdXXX” names instead of cXtXdXs2. If you run “iostat” command without “n” option, you can see that […]