Holistically Manage Your Virtual Environment
Did you think virtualizing your IT infrastructure would put an end to your systems management woes? If so, you are not alone. While it’s true that you now have less hardware, less storage housed on ac...
Register Now. Free 4 Day Foglight Dev Camp 2017
Come join Microsoft, Anvil.Works and Quest to learn how to maximize your Foglight platform during the Foglight Dev Camp 2017. Register Now!! What you will learn October 16 Virtualization and Cloud...
Speedbumps on the Road to Disaster Recovery and Data Protection
Chico: “You call this a barn? This looks like a stable.” Groucho: “Well, if you look at it, it’s a barn; if you smell it, it’s a stable.” From “Monkey Business,” by the Marx Brothers That’s the way ...
Using tokens for Foglight dashboard access
Some users only require simple access to Foglight dashboards, ideally being able to skip the logon step. In Foglight Server version 5.7.5.7, the user security option of an auth token was introduced. M...
Bringing Order to Chaos
I was working with a new customer and showing him some of the features of Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition. I was going through the Capacity Manager section and showing him how he can u...
Send a VM Performance Report to a User
If you are at all like many of the other Foglight administrators I speak with on a regular basis, you've become the master of the out-of-the-box Foglight dashboards and reports. You can use Foglight t...
Optimizing Virtual Data Center with Foglight
10 years ago, the synergy between application developers/administrators and systems administrators was very simple: dev team is building applications and sysadmins are building servers. Dev team owned...
Counting Down to Microsoft Ignite
Quest is a Platinum sponsor of Microsoft Ignite 2016, September 26-30 in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s only the second year of the event, but the conference is sold out – which makes it even more exciting t...
Using Foglight to monitor VMware virtual networking
We are pleased to introduce the Foglight cartridge to monitor VMware vSwitches. Foglight for Virtualization 7.2 release contains many enhancements; one of them is this brand new feature. Why monitor v...
Wasted Storage is Wasted Money
Last year, we ran a Wastefinder contest and on average customers were wasting over 50% of their storage. Yes - over 50%! Our Systems Engineering team also reports similar numbers when they are engaged...