By Martin Hosken
I’ve spent a lot of time helping my customers build a proper foundation for a successful implementation of vRealize Log Insight, and I’ve published a white paper that highlights key design challenges on how to overcome them. I’d like to share a brief overview with you here.
VMware vRealize Log Insight gives administrators the ability to consolidate logs, monitor and troubleshoot vSphere and to perform security auditing and compliance testing.
This white paper addresses the design challenges and key design decisions that arise when architecting an enterprise-wide syslog solution with vRealize Log Insight. It focuses on the design aspects of syslog in a vSphere environment and provides sample reference architectures to aid your design work and provide ideas about strategies for your own projects.
With every ESXi host in the data center generating approximately 250 MB of log file data a day, the need to centrally manage this data for proactive health monitoring, troubleshooting issues and performing security audits is something that many organizations continue to face every day.
Note: A symlink is a type of file that contains a reference to another file in the form of an absolute or relative path.
VMware vRealize Log Insight is a scalable and secure solution that includes a syslog server, log consolidation tool and log analysis tool that works for any type of device that can send syslog data and not only the vSphere infrastructure.
As with any successful implementation project, the need to plan and design a solution that meets all the requirements set out by the business is key in ensuring success, and developing a design that is scalable, resilient and secure is fundamental to achieving this. And this includes keeping in mind the requirements of your business leaders, system administrators and security auditors as well.
To read the entire whitepaper, click HERE.
Martin Hosken is a Senior Consultant, VMware Professional Services EMEA
