#Friday , Friday, Friday, and we want to end this week with an event that has been #Linkedin since Tuesday – Dell Technologies Forum 2023. It was definitely worth being there and meeting you. At least for a moment, feel the atmosphere and bustle of the city of the future by Dell Technologies. We navigated Modern Technology and Workforce Transformation. The districts gathered in their avenues a lot of attractions, all kinds of surprises and opportunities to learn about new IT solutions. 😊 Panels and discussions conducted in the style of a real gala. You could listen to experts, professors and technology experts:
👌 Future of Work: About the future of work in the context of new technologies. 👌 Modern Data Infrastructure: Modern data infrastructure – the key to success. 👌 Multicloud by APEX: Get to know the multi-cloud strategy by APEX. 👌 Security by Design: Security is a priority. Learn how to design them. 👌 The Future is on the EDGE: Let’s focus on the future – the future in cloud computing.
Our immediate reality is definitely #AI and everything centered around it. Many questions and doubts have been dispelled and clarified, but some of them are still controversial, for example, does AI have consciousness? We leave you with this question.😉 Let us know what you think about it.😊
We presented ourselves in the #Apex district 😊 Marcin Rzepa, he can talk 😊, and this is only part of what he talked about.
SDDC as #NSX , #vSphere , #vSAN , and on top of it the head 🧠 that we have been specializing in for 6 years can cover the entire #Mulitcloud and give it a uniform user experience. All this requires commitment not only from us as INDEVOPS, but above all from you, so that we can best recognize your needs and help you as best as we can. Our clients already know about this and use these solutions every day. SDDC allows us to manage our #datacenter in the same way as in public clouds, and at the same time provides us with full control over the environment: 👉 building services 👉 management via IaC 👉 controlling the VMware cloud, just like other clouds.
The panel was co-hosted with our colleague Andrzej Szymczak from VMware , whom we would like to thank very much 😊 🤝 If you want more information about #SDDC and our other implementations, please contact us. ✍ ✍ Until next time. ✋ ✋
Still full of emotions, but smiles on the faces of the listeners. 🙂😉
The pains of our customers are taken very seriously by us.
How we deal with them could be heard at the panel.
Marcin Rzepa told what some of Indevops’ experiences with projects at our clients looked like.
What impact our actions have on proactivity and application performance.
How, thanks to our DevOps teams, we solved the biggest problems of the companies that trusted us and decided on our implementations.
Gartner September Analyst Briefing is behind us. 👌 👌 👌
September started the way we like it best – with meetings. We appreciate Gartner’s events for the relaxed atmosphere, interesting panels and networking, and Ewa Szymczak appreciates delicious breakfasts as well 😉 🙂 🙂
We also had the unique opportunity to have a 1:1 conversation with a Gartner analyst, who expanded our perspective on observability and the direction of our future path.
Thank you Martin Caren for this opportunity.
The future of IT looks truly heavenly 🙂 because, as it resounded at the meeting, “Cloud is no longer a product, but a lifestyle” and in the next few years digital transformation will go full steam ahead. ☁ ☁ 👍
MultiCloud, Observability, OpenTelemetry, applications – that’s what we’ll be focusing our attention on.
At Indevops, we are always on top of the latest trends and share them with our customers. We direct our attention to the most interesting solutions, which we are faithful to.
Monitoring and automation are becoming even more important and the sooner we realize this, the better.
Business does not like stagnation, so we keep moving forward. 😊 💪
There are more September 🍂 🍂 meetings ahead. Feel free to follow our Linkedin.
Meanwhile, see how the Gartner September Analyst Briefing looked like through my lens. 😊
Special thanks for the invitation to the invaluable Barbara Brandon. 😊
In the technologies that we implement at INDEVOPS , my colleagues are experts.
Conversation with them is always a solid portion of knowledge, sprinkled with a decent dose of good humor.
Provided that the equipment does not play tricks on us during the recording of the material. 😊😊 Unfortunately, it did.
Well, now let’s have a test from what I remember – as befits the beginning of the school year. 😊
The topic of my assignment. Why is it a good idea to implement OS agents in VMware Aria Operations?
The starting point was my understanding of what an OS or operating system is which Marcin Rzepa explained to me swiftly in a very illustrative way:
Windows, which I have installed, is my OS
the remote desktop I run on is also my OS
the difference between one and the other is that the laptop is the physical infrastructure (I can touch it, move it) while the desktop is my program, where I access and it is my virtualized laptop.
Here we come to another concept: virtualization. Well, virtualization, to put it simply, is to install, for example, multiple Windows on a single server, that is, such a much more powerful laptop.
Readers know more about virtualization than I do, so I won’t elaborate on that 🙂
Well, but what’s the deal with those Agents?
In VMware Aria Operations we have 2 types of agents. For metrics there is the Telegraph agent. For logs there is the Fluentd agent or the native Aria Operetions for Logs agent. The agents allow you to collect metrics and logs, not only from the operating system itself, (because these metrics can be collected by Aria through VMTools – an agent that is built into the vSphere platform that virtualizes OSes) but specifically from the applications installed in it. This provides an easy way to look deeply into our application, and thus we can more easily and quickly detect undesirable situations and errors in it. And since it’s faster, we save time and therefore, money.
This begs the question of why is it easier to troubleshoot by adding an agent to the OS?
On the one hand, VMware Aria Operations monitors and collects information from the physical infrastructure and virtualization software remotely through plug-ins (management packs and content packs), and on the other hand, we can get additional metrics (indicators) of application performance on that system (thanks to the agent). Meaning to monitor performance (metrics) as well as errors (logs), or even its behavior itself (logs). Behavior, because applications generate logs, you can increase the levels of accuracy of the logs in the application, and the agent captures all this and sends it to VMware Aria Operations, where it is parsed and you can build your own analysis and tracking methods out of this. On top of that, in turn, you can impose appropriate conditions and alarms that are triggered, or just tracked.
In addition, VMware Aria Operations can automatically build relationships between monitored objects. As we have an agent (Telegraf) such a relationship is also built to the OS on which it is installed. Moreover, if the agent detects application components, it also represents them in Aria. Then the operator has a visualized picture of the application’s architecture in graphical form, i.e. exactly what components the application is built of and can trace the entire path of its dependencies on the other components: databases, virtualization and physical layer. Such visualization is particularly useful when . On the one hand, when the infrastructure fails, we can see if and which applications are affected. On the other hand, when an application has a problem, we can see if and what infrastructure component can affect it.
Example of built relationships between objects
So it’s easier, because see the bigger picture. Data from all plugged-in elements “flows down” into one place. We have visibility into metrics and logs from the entire IT stack.
So what does the full IT picture look like?
By default, Aria has a number of built-in views or dashboards prepared for different types of objects and for different audiences, such as a dashboard that shows in graphical form all virtual machines depending on their CPU load, or a dashboard view of databases across the entire environment (our customer has 500 instances and sees them all on one dashboard).
Additionally, you can create custom dashboards in VMware Aria Operations. This may not be anything extraordinary nowadays, but the extraoridinary seems to us that we at Indevops specialize in listening to our Customers 🙂 and making their dreams come true 🙂
Thus, we have plenty of dashboards which we deliver during our implementations and which allow to look more conveniently and extensively at the monitorised world – from agents to infrastructure.
Example of an application dashboard
I hope I was able to capture and illustrate the topic well 🙂.
If you have any questions, let me know. Our team is ready to meet your needs.
Cucumber season 🥒 🥒 😊 in full swing.
Vacation, rest, relaxation and travel. That’s what I want to think about right now, but work won’t do itself, and even though the time seems to be summer and light, it’s hot and happening a lot at our place. 💪 Before the vacations, I wanted to publish you something that hasn’t been in INDEVOPS yet. A real treat, inspired by our favorite text this year by Marcin Rzepa: https://lnkd.in/d29Xrb_6
Reality, however, showed me that it’s not the time for this publication, but I’m not letting go and the surprise will be soon 👀 👌 😊
I leave you in this vacation malaise and wish you nice vacation experiences and cool memories.
If you want to write me about them, go ahead 😊 😉
