Disable Discovery of Virtual Machine Resource Groups in Cluster MP

Both Cluster Management Pack and Virtual Machine Management Pack provide monitoring for Virtual Machine but from different perspective. In some situations the Cluster MP can be very noise as it is monitoring Resource Groups and Resources which could be down just because some virtual machines are shut down. Continue reading “Disable Discovery of Virtual Machine Resource Groups in Cluster MP”

Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – The Azure Portal Experience (Part 10)

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Cameron tipped me that I should write a blog post about the Azure Portal Experience for Operational Insights. Continue reading “Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – The Azure Portal Experience (Part 10)”

Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Alert Management (Part 9)

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For more than a couple of weeks there is a new Intelligence Pack in Azure Operational Insights – Alert Management. I would have blogged earlier but initially the IP was not working for my account but the Azure Operational Insights team managed to fix it for less than a week. Of course once I had my Alert Management working I was occupied with other tasks. In short better late than never. Continue reading “Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Alert Management (Part 9)”

Updated MP: HP Storage Integration with Microsoft System Center

HP is continuing to improve the experience with HP products and System Center. The latest version  of HP StoreFront Manager for Microsoft System Center is now available. That includes HP Storage Management Pack for SCOM v.4.1 and HP Storage UI Add-in for SCVMM v2.1. The key highlight of this release is the enablement of Software Defined Storage (SDS) footprint in Hyper-V environment through SCVMM. The solution radically simplifies the transformation of existing server capacity into virtual storage through the new integrated HP StoreVirtual deployment wizard for Hyper-V. Continue reading “Updated MP: HP Storage Integration with Microsoft System Center”

Kemp LoadMaster #scom Management Pack v2

We have a new release of the Kemp LoadMaster Management Pack. You can read all the details on Daniele Grandini’s blog.