My intention with this post is to have a comparison summary of different monitoring solutions I have installed, tested or played around with. Having this granular and detailed visibility into the Cloud is essential in this new age, of ever-increasing demands to reduce cost and increase efficiency through consolidation and multi-tenancy. This mind-set is ever more relevant now we are in a world of statelessness and Cloud, where workloads can be mobile and running across infrastructure that may or may not be under your own control. There’s a lot to be said for having the view of “What good is it being alerted that I have a CPU running hot, or errors increasing on a particular DIMM indicating a possible imminent failure, I want to know what impact that is or could have on my application or service” Customers deserve and indeed are demanding better! Just because a customer or vendor has always done somthing a particular way does not necessarily mean, that they should just carry on in that fashion. The fact is Cisco UCS and other converged offerings for that matter have heralded a new age of how workloads are delivered, operated and are managed within a Data Center, across Data Centers and across Cloud Infrastructures whether Private, Public or Hybrid.Īnd if this is a new age of converged and Cloud offerings, surely we need a new age of monitoring solution for them. To which my historical response was somthing like “what is it you use now? and if your happy with it, we’ll look to integrate Cisco UCS in to your existing Solution” or perhaps “Just use UCS Manager for the UCS Components and use somthing else for workload and application monitoring. In my role as Subject Matter Expert for Cisco UCS and integrated Systems, I am often asked by customers for my views on how best to monitor them and the applications that run on them. I am sure I’m opening up a huge can of worms with this post, but all those who know me, will know that I am never one to shy away from controversy or from encouraging debate.
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