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up.time VMware vSphere 5 Support

Friday, April 27th, 2012

You asked for it, our upcoming release of up.time 7.0 will fully support VMware vSphere 5! uptime software inc. has been a long time VMware partner, launching our first VMware monitoring solution in the early days of ESX in 2006. Since then we have released several major evolutions of our virtualization monitoring platform and are continuing to build on our relationship by fully supporting the latest vSphere edition in up.time 7.0. up.time 6.0 already fully supports vSphere 4.x, with all of the powerful features you are used to continuing to be available:

Smart VMware Monitoring

  • vSync Dynamic Discovery: Keep your monitoring inventory in lock step with any changes to your vSphere environment. The second a new VM is spun up or hosts are moved around the datacenter, up.time’s inventory will update itself instantly so that you know you don’t have any monitoring blind spots in your environment. Monitor your whole vSphere environment agentlessly through your vCenter installation.
  • Power Awareness Intelligence: Power state awareness dashboards bring real time power status information into your global view. Take control of power state changes by alerting your administrators when critical systems are powered down. 
  • VM Sprawl Control: Automatic notifications of new VMs ensure they are compliant with your IT policy. Review weekly sprawl reports to target zombie or over allocated VMs  so you can free up precious disk & memory space to the VMs that really need it.

Deep VMware Capacity Management

  • Easy Capacity Bottleneck Troubleshooting: Instantly find your bottlenecks and drill into the root cause.
  • Global Capacity Reports: How much capacity do I have? How much am I using? How much am I wasting? up.time helps you answer all of these questions so that you can reclaim valuable resources and proactively avoid embarrassing capacity outages.

In addition to all of the other great benefits of up.time, our “single pane of glass” dashboards brings together your virtual, physical and cloud environments into one monitoring toolset.

If you haven’t had a chance to try up.time yet, you can download a free trial from our website and be up and running in 15 minutes.

Dave.

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Virtual Appliances

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

I love these things!

VMware’s Virtual Appliance Marketplace (VAM) is like a candy store for we geeks and nerds.  While not quite as robust as say, the iPhone App store, there are hundreds of ready made appliances for hundreds of applications. Pick your solution, download it and run it on your favorite VMware virtualization platform.  Don’t like it?  Simply delete it, nothing to ‘uninstall’.

For those of you who don’t know, a Virtual Appliance is the modern day equivalent of a turn-key application.  The OS, application and any supporting tools are pre-installed and ready to power up.  They save you gobs of time, especially when evaluating a solution. The best part?  Batteries are included, and some assembly is NOT required!  In most cases you don’t need to provision any new virtual hardware, or ask your storage manager for more space on the SAN.  Don’t have a virtualization platform yet? You can download VMware Player, for free, and run the appliance on your desktop.

I know that virtual appliances aren’t that new. they’ve been around for a while now.  I know, “way to be late to the game Mitchell!”, But it’s only recently that VMware has been pushing awareness through their VAM portal, and I’m particularly excited today.  Why?

up.time 5.2 has been appliancized!

the up.time Virtual Appliance is finally here and is a dream come true. Now instead of downloading up.time, making sure you meet all the system requirements, possibly installing a new OS and spending time simply readying yourself for our lighting-fast install, we’ve done it all for you!  Download the appliance and run it. It’s that simple.  Seriously,I fired up the appliance and was ready to play with up.time in about 3 minutes! (excluding download time).

This is a game changer.  No longer are you tied to a platform, or hardware. You can can truly be up and monitoring in minutes. Don’t like it? Go ahead and delete it.  Love it? Move it to a production virtualization platform, like ESX and run with it.

We’re confident that you’ll love it.

Download up.time virtual appliance today and try it free for 30 days.  We’d love to hear what you think (comments please!).

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Virtualized Virtualization. Is it art?

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

I love elegant but useless hacks.  There’s something artful about hacks that provide no real value, other than to make a statement;

“Yes, this can be done”

It’s like scaling Everest, or BASE Jumping the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur.  But why do it?  Take, for example, this hack:

Run VMware ESX 3 in a VMware Workstation 6 virtual machine.

Can someone please explain to me why this is useful?

I’m not trying to be being obtuse, or short sighted.  I see the benefit of running ESX within a desktop virtualization platform for, say, quick development purposes, or simply to familiarize one self with the product.  But surely you have a hunk of hardware lying around that would better host ESX and give you more of a real-world feel for it?  Besides, ESX isn’t free.  You have 60 days to evaluate it, and surely you’re not going to purchase a license to run it in a virtual machine.  ESXi is free and can apparently be coerced to run virtualized as well.

So, are hackers artists?  Running a virtualization platform inside a virtualization platform is interesting, but not particularly useful.  It’s a beer’s worth of discussion, but much more than that and you’re thinking too hard about it.  Move on to the next piece in the gallery.

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