Webinar – Garland & Big Switch: Enabling Low-cost 100G Monitoring for Visibility and Security

Learn how Big Switch SDN fabric and Garland TAPs enable low-cost 10G/40G/100G pervasive monitoring. In this recorded webinar, discover how Garland Technology’s network TAPs are deployed with Big Switch’s Big Monitoring Fabric to provide a 10G/40G/100G monitoring solution that is operationally simple, highly scalable, and cost-effective for enterprise, service provider and web-scale/SaaS data centers. The… Continue reading Webinar – Garland & Big Switch: Enabling Low-cost 100G Monitoring for Visibility and Security

Monitoring your OpenStack Swift cluster health

Monitoring your Swift cluster health OpenStack Swift is an object storage solution with a focus on availability, even if parts of the cluster are not accessible. There are a bunch of mechanisms inside Swift to protect stored data and ensure a high availability. However, this comes not for free. Swift itself assumes that there will… Continue reading Monitoring your OpenStack Swift cluster health

AVI Networks: ELB+ for OpenStack with Enterprise-grade LBaaS and Real-time Analytics

In this session, we will demo an enterprise-grade, software load balancer with distributed microservices architecture that is fully integrated with OpenStack and offers Amazon ELB-like elasticity. The demo will showcase following capabilities in a multi-tenant OpenStack cloud: Automated scale-out based on real-time trafficHigh-performance SSLReal-time application monitoring without any …Full session details here:

AppFormix: Control Application Performance from the Infrastructure

Controlling the performance of your applications in real-time and maximizing the efficiency of virtual infrastructure within OpenStack and Docker Environments is the key to boosting IT ROI. In this demo, we will show how application performance and maximizing infrastructure utilization can exist in perfect harmony.…Full session details here:

Managing logging in your OpenStack environment

Given an OpenStack deployment where services are varied and distributed across many hosts, creating an efficient and usable logging solution can present quite a few challenges. From an Operators perspective, not having useful or easily accessible logs can massively hamper issue resolution and health checking efficiency, but what can we do to ensure the logs… Continue reading Managing logging in your OpenStack environment

Zenoss Expands Support for Cisco Datacenter Environments

Zenoss Inc., the leading provider of unified monitoring and service analytics for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructures, today announced new support for two Cisco UCS server families, ZenPacks for Cisco UCS Central and Cisco UCS Director and a ZenPack supporting VXLAN in Cisco Nexus 9000 switches. The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is an… Continue reading Zenoss Expands Support for Cisco Datacenter Environments

The anatomy of an action: mining the event storm

A key feature when monitoring and debugging any Cloud infrastructure is to provide the ability to trace, track, and collate all the individual, discrete steps that compose an event. A typical resource action in OpenStack is often a combination of smaller tasks — which given the distributed nature of OpenStack — can fail at unpredictable… Continue reading The anatomy of an action: mining the event storm