Galileo Performance Explorer is sponsoring IBM’s Technical University (TechU) this week (April 12-14) at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. Galileo co-founder Tim Conley and our team of technical sales...
Part 5 of Series: Performance Monitoring of VMware Environments With Galileo for VMware, users also receive another significant feature—the bundled Windows/Linux agent. With it, users can see both...
Part 4 of Series: Performance Monitoring of VMware Environments Given the nature of the modern, ever-growing data center; administrators need to know what resources are being used—and if they are...
Part 3 of Series: Solving Today’s Top 5 IT Performance Management Challenges In most typical IT infrastructure environments, bigger is not always immediately better. While running undersized can...
Part 2 of Series: Solving Today’s Top 5 IT Performance Management Challenges A number of challenges face IT administrators when the time comes to diagnose a problem within their...
Do you use IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) for AIX server monitoring? What about VIO Servers? VIO Server software now comes with the ITM Premium (va) agent pre-installed. It just needs to be configured...
Part 1 of Series: Solving Today’s Top 5 IT Performance Management Challenges IT Performance is an important concern due to the complicated nature of application architectures—including layers of...
I recently performed some Live Partition Mobility (LPM) testing for a customer, and ran into a number of problems – see Part 1 of this post for the full story on all of the problems and solutions....
Live Partition Mobility (LPM) is not a new feature for IBM Power servers, but I recently revisited it, and discovered some interesting problems (and solutions) that I wanted to share, to help anyone...
This blog entry presents a basic introduction to Oracle execution plans. What exactly is an Oracle execution plan? An execution plan consists of the steps that the database server will take to...
GlusterFS has been a growing distributed filesystem, and is now a part of Red Hat Storage Server. GlusterFS, also with Ceph (not covered in this article), have created a software based filesystem...
Sqlplus is the command line interface client for the Oracle database. It is used by DBAs to administer a database, by developers to develop server side software components, and others. It is one of...