VMworld 2013 and Liquidware Labs

VMworld 2013 and Liquidware Labs

VMworld 2013 is almost upon us (August 25th to 29th in San Francisco, CA) and I am definitely looking forward to it. It is the 10th anniversary conference for VMware and I expect it to be a great event. I have been to a number of VMworld conferences and I recommend attending if you have the opportunity. Continue reading

New vCops Feeds Introduced in Stratusphere UX 5.4

Today Liquidware Labs released, Stratusphere UX  version 5.4. The new release included some important new features and enhancements. The full list is outlined in the Stratusphere 5.4 Release Notes.

One new feature added that I wanted to highlight is the introduction of new data feeds to VMware vCenter Operations (vCops). Previously the Liquidware Labs adapter’s feed would group its metrics by Stratusphere User Groups only. Now in 5.4 there are 3 options for grouping exported metrics to vCops. Continue reading

Troubleshooting Liquidware Labs vCops Adapter

In the Stratusphere 5.2 release we announced a new Stratusphere Adapter technology, which is an integration plug-in that feeds critical desktop end-user metrics into VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCops).

Here we will look at some general troubleshooting techniques for situations where you have installed and configured the Stratusphere vCops adapter but you are not seeing the expected metric data. Continue reading