Recently, I was involved in some work to assist the VMware Tanzu Observability team to assist them in updating their deliverables for OpenShift. Now it’s generally available, I found some time to test it out in my lab. For this blog post, I am going to pull in metrics from my VMware Cloud on AWS … Continue reading Tanzu Observability – First look at monitoring OpenShift & VMware Cloud on AWS
In this post, I will cover how to deploy Prometheus and the Telegraf exporter and configure so that the data can be collected by vRealize Operations. Overview vRealize Operations Delivers intelligent operations management with application-to-storage visibility across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. Using policy-based automation, operations teams automate key processes and improve the IT efficiency. … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus and Telegraf
vRealize Log Insight 8.6 brings the ability to build a hybrid log management platform, utilizing the functionality of an on-premises deployment of vRLI and vRLI Cloud. From the release notes, in this blog post we’ll be looking at how to configure the following: Simplify Log Archival with Non-Indexed Partitions: Use vRealize Log Insight Cloud to … Continue reading Using vRealize Log Insight Cloud to archive on-premise Log Insight Data
In this blog post I’m going to cover setting up the Multi-cluster support for Kasten when you’ve installed the software to multiple Kubernetes clusters. One K10 cluster you have deployed will become the primary node. You will use this node and dashboard interface to access the cluster UI. The primary cluster defines policies and other … Continue reading Configuring Kasten Multi-Cluster Manager across Tanzu and OpenShift
The Issue A while ago I was chatting to Michael Cade, and we pondered the question “How do we ensure Kasten is protecting a newly deployed application in our Kubernetes environment”. We chatted about how one of the best ways to make your Kasten protection policy flexible is by using metadata labels. We came up … Continue reading Tanzu Mission Control – Using custom policies to ensure Kasten protects a deployed application