Virtual Bonkeydave

Bit about me

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I started as a graduate at ICL ( changing to Fujitsu ) and have spent over 23 years in the IT industry. First role  as an IT engineer progressing then making the jump into senior management running a large IT product line. I decided to go back into a technical role and was involved in some high profile projects over the years ending my career at Fujitsu as a principal architect. I have Keept close to the ever changing world of technology and have adapted over the years.

Since joining VMware in 2015 I have  presented at numerous industry, analyst and technology partner events. Whilst enjoying his current position of Snr. Technical Account Manager working with numerous industry verticals and helping them move forward with their digital transformations. I am also a mental health first aider within VMware and have presented numerous times on the topic.

Log insight – new deployment wizard

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It is a best practice for single-node deployments to use the vRealize Log Insight integrated load balancer (ILB) and to send queries and ingestion tra c to the ILB. This does not incur overhead and simpli es con guration if you want to add nodes to create a cluster for your deployment in the future

Log insight series – vm deployment

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As a keen log insight follower i decided to put a small series of blogs together, there does not seem to be that many around so i thought it may improve the community a little. Steve Flanders a good friend of mine, he  has a great blog on log insight and being honest is probably the holly grail of information.

You can get to it by going to http://sflanders.net/ however i think sometimes its nice to see numerous peoples blogs….. Hopefully this series can help a few people, plus its about time i got off my rear and did something.

 

One of the great things with Log Insight is the ease of deployment, it really is as simple as downloading and deploying the OVA. Obviously there a little bit more to it than that, however if your keen to have a play then getting Log Insight into your R&D then its is really simple.

As alway i recommend popping over to the documentation centre and vmware and having a read of the current release notes as well as the rest of the documentation set.

 

https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Log-Insight/index.html

https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Log-Insight/4.5.1/rn/VMware-vRealize-Log-Insight-451-Release-Notes.html

First thing first is to get yourself over to vmware and download the latest version if you have a current license :

log insight download

If you dont have a current license then a 60 day trial is freely available

log insight trial

OVA size is generally around 1 gig

 

Task 1 : Log into vCenter and click deploy OVF template

 

Point to your Log insight OVA

Name your Log insight instance

Chose your host to deploy to

Accept usual agreements

Chose correct size, it defaults to small however as this is my home lab extra small is ample

Chose storage policy

Enter you networks settings

Hit Finish, it will then go off and deploy the OVF. It generally does not take to long however is dependant on the size of deployment and type of disks you are creating. Other factors are down to your infrastructure, my home lab is certainly not the best.

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Once deployed the VM we will be off, the next post will go through the deployment wizard.

 

Pandora 5

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So my trusty bartop cab has had a few changes over the last few months, started with a pandora 3 which has been in it for a few years

 

 

Upgraded my pandora 4 to a 5