PowerMax Content Pack for Log Insight v1.1

I've posted an update to the The Dell EMC VMAX And PowerMax Content Pack For VMware vRealize Log Insight which you can find on the VMware Marketplace. You can also install it directly from your implementation as below: The new version only has a couple changes. The first is a renaming of "VVol" references to...

Dell EMC VMAX and PowerMax Content Pack

This week I published a new update to the VMAX Content Pack which is used in conjunction with VMware Log Insight, VMware's log collection software. You can locate it under the new name Dell EMC VMAX and PowerMax Content Pack in the VMware Solutions Exchange: or online within your own Log Insight installation: The description...

VMAX CP for Log Insight rebrand

When Dell took over EMC, there were a number of sub-company names created for the purposes of distinguishing products across our portfolio. While the company as a whole is known as Dell Technologies, the division I work for retained the EMC name so we are known as Dell EMC (hence my banner). (This is not...

VMware Log Insight 4.0

VMware just released Log Insight (LI) version 4.0. Generally for LI releases my posts are light because it never makes sense to me to elaborate extensively when Steve Flanders (@sflanders) owns this space. You can find his site at sflanders.net where he will go into all the details (over time with many posts) about 4.0 as he...

EMC Storage Analytics 3.0 and vROps 6.0

EMC Storage Analytics 3.0 is now available and is the first ESA release to support vRealize Operations Management 6.0.  Along with support of 6.0, ESA 3.0 adds a new storage platform XtremeIO.  I won't even bother trying to do justice to the new platform on ESA since I know Itzik has that covered so if...

VMAX Content Pack in the Age of vRealize

If you're wondering about the title, VMware decided some time ago to rename a suite of their products to "vRealize" from "vCenter".  As I am not in marketing nor work for VMware I can't expound on the reasoning for the rename but I can tell you what it means to me is I have to...

Alerts with VMAX ESA/Content Pack for Log Insight

In my last post (https://drewtonnesen.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/esa-2-4-1-ga-vplex-vmax-fast-vp/) I noted that one of the futures we are looking into for VMAX ESA is the ability to record alerts against resources.  This capability would be completely inherent to ESA.  I also mentioned, however, that we can do something similar with VMware Log Insight (LI) in conjunction with VMAX ESA. ...

VMAX Content Pack 2.0 for VMware Log Insight 2.0

VMware has announced the release of the 2.0 version of VMware Log Insight (LI).  Steve Flanders is the go-to guy at VMware for all things Log Insight so check out his blog on this - http://sflanders.net/2014/06/11/log-insight-2-0-now-available/ .  So another release of LI provides a chance for me to update the VMAX Content Pack (CP). I’m going...

Auditing with the VMAX Content Pack v1.5.1

So I'll start by noting that you may have seen some of my other blog posts on my friend and colleague's site codyhosterman.com.  Cody has moved into a new group and role at EMC and as a result he will be working on lots of different technologies as evidenced by some of his recent posts...