Since the launch of the Splunk App for VMware, we’ve received some great feedback on how to use the data collected by the App. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Splunk App for VMware v2.0 and with your help we’ve introduced some fantastic reports and visualizations. Here are some highlights:

Health reports: These reports provide a real-time view of the health of your VMware environments. You can quickly identify which VMs and hosts have system resources that are in a critical state, datastores that are under- or over-utilized, alarms that have been triggered from your environments and more. You can then logically navigate from these summary pages to detailed pages. And to do…

Attending .conf for the first time this year, I was reminded of the lyrics from Elvis’s song Viva Las Vegas

” How I wish that there were more
Than the twenty-four hours in the day
Cause even if there were forty more
I wouldn’t sleep a minute away”

I didn’t want .conf12 to end. Hearing our customers talk about their usage of Splunk, meeting some of you face-to-face and learning all that’s going on in Splunk put me in a high trance – one that I’ve not quite experienced in Vegas before.

Speaking specifically about virtualization – we had multiple sessions – for VMware, for Citrix solutions such as XenDesktop, XenApp,

Are you virtualizing your environment? Is your organization soaking in all the buzz around Cloud? Are you virtualizing your infrastructure or adopting cloud solutions? Want to gain efficiencies and learn how Splunk can help? Come join us in our various Cloud and Virtualization sessions at .conf.

We have a solution for VMware  (but of course!). Come join us to learn about how to best configure the App, a demo and various use cases discussed over 3 sessions. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to speak directly to the experts who created this App. Learn why all our customers are excited about the solution that provides them unprecedented levels of granularity on their virtualization data with the ability to relate…

Server virtualization brings about tremendous benefits in gaining efficiencies, minimizing infrastructure footprint, effectively sharing resources and cost savings; however, its dynamic and distributed nature raises some new challenges in managing capacity, understanding your security posture and troubleshooting. Virtualization demands a new approach to monitoring. Capturing virtualization data, persisting and analyzing it together with data from the rest of your IT stack (like applications, storage, network…) becomes critical to go back in time and understand the root cause of any issue, trend an event and report it in full fidelity.

As you are aware, the goal at Splunk is to make machine data (structured and unstructured) accessible and usable to everyone. We’ve extended the core functionality of Splunk to capture virtualization…

As you might have heard, we recently released a new product: Splunk for VMware.

As you are going through the install guide, you’ll come to a step where you are required to assign a list of twelve privileges to a user account by using the vSphere Client. In order to save time and to reduce the risk of errors due to manual entry, I wrote a script that does the work for you. This script is especially useful if you have multiple vCenter servers and will need to apply the permission across several datacenters.

The script was tested against vSphere 5 with vCenter Server. This script will not work against an ESXi environment without vCenter, due to…

If you’re participating in our beta program for the Splunk App for VMware, and are upgrading to vSphere 5 shortly, we have good news for you. We’ve released an updated beta with support for vSphere 5!

You may be wondering—what have we heard from our beta customers so far?

The first thing we hear is, “Wow, this is a lot of data!”—and it is. One of the reasons for this, is that we pull metrics data directly from the ESX hosts and with a much deeper level of granularity than is available with vCenter.

“What’s the use of this deeper level of granularity? ”, you might ask

Well—have you had that experience as a user of VMware virtual machines, where…

We took a new corporate instance of Splunk into production last fiscal year, via the efforts of Paul Stout, my manager of Splunk applications, and the team who worked with him from our IT operations and professional services departments. The facilities group just ringed the office space with monitors to display some of the key dashboards we use on a daily basis to monitor and manage our assets. We are rolling out the Splunk App for Enterprise Security 2.0 and the latest app for VMware, and these have been major developments on our road map.

Had a nice reminder of how a passion for Splunk so often starts with someone from an operations trying to solve a specific problem and…

The Splunk App for VMware is now in beta. It has been one of our most popular requests and a much-searched-for app. Why? Because virtualization, as much as it allows resources to be shared more efficiently, also leads to problems being shared! Splunk customers want to be able to tie user level or application level problems with the underlying server, storage, network or virtualization layers. They want a way to make those connections easily and at scale.

Last week, the Splunk team was at VMworld Copenhagen on a very exciting mission- Monitoring Labcloud, VMware’s private cloud environment that runs all the labs at VMworld. The Splunk team had taken on the task of providing end to end visibility across a subset of VMware’s Labcloud environment. The technology tiers that Splunk was monitoring including LabCloud(a custom app), VMware vCloud Director, VMware vSphere, VMware vCenter Server, NetApp storage and networking devices in the environment. The environment was enormously dynamic with virtual machines being spun up and spun down; host configurations changing frequently. Needless to say, Splunk performed with flying colors! Some of our key wins:

1. In a cloud environment, a lot of the provisioning and de-provisioning is delegated

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We came across a very interesting post from Andre Leibovici that spells out a nice recipe for collecting and indexing PCoIP log files across a large network:

When you have hundreds or thousands of log files across hundreds or thousands of desktops, the task of collecting and analysing those files can be challenging if you do not have the right tool. When you need to troubleshoot PCoIP across a range of desktops you will be challenged with a similar scenario.

Read the original post here.

Read more about PCoIP here.