In this paper Doichin Yordanov, formerly Technical Lead of the vSphere Logging Service at VMware, shows how you can easily add a free yet enterprise-class monitoring layer to your lightweight VMware virtualisation tier.
You will learn how to achieve the kind of infrastructure monitoring available with VMware’s Virtual Center by using free tools such as the ESXi hypervisor and rsyslogd.
About the author Doichin Yordanov is an R&D engineer with more than 20 years of experience in scalable enterprise infrastructure software. He is the founder of DataStork, a specialist software consultancy. Previously at VMware he was Technical Lead of the vSphere Logging Service, founder and lead of the vCloud persistence workgroup and DB team, and Architect of vCloud features.