Wednesday, December 30, 2009

vCenter 4 Alarms and Thin Provisioning

vCenter 4 has really impressed me as well with the many stock alarms that are present now. Are there are new interesting ones you should consider adding especially for using the new Thin provisioning features and monitoring snapshots. By default you get the "Datastore Usage on Disk" alarm, basically your how full am I. But with thin provisioning you should really consider some of the suggestion from the VCritical site below:

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VMware Thin Provisioning Performance White Paper

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