Here’s a conundrum – you are building a virtual infrastructure to host your businesses mission critical applications. Where do you put your vCenter Server? The documentation says it can be physical or virtual – but, be honest, do you really get a warm fuzzy feeling with the thought of managing your virtual infrastructure from a virtual machine hosted within that infrastructure?

Despite the apparent high cost of the VMware offering it remains the market leader.  Why?

Most businesses these days realise that in the current climate you cannot afford to let any opportunity slip... Here I am going to show how a techie tool for monitoring systems and alerting the Systems Administrator to potential issues may be used to improve performance in other areas of the business!

 If you are a Systems Administrator or responsible for systems in your organisation you are probably familiar with that gut-wrenching feeling that you get when a bunch of people arrive at your desk asking “Are you aware of any problems?” Of course it ain’t ever easy to answer such open ended questions - and the sad thing is that often the answer is “No!” in spite of the sudden arrival of evidence to the contrary...