PC Case Fan Effectiveness Analysis

A side effect of setting up your own VMWare lab is that, after all is said and done, you end up with a little furnace in a closet.  With Orlando weather, this is mostly unnecessary.

Having recently setup the ELK stack to monitor this VM, I searched for the string ‘temperature’ not knowing what I would find.

Bingo, the image above clearly shows temperature warnings from the three hard drives in VM.

Monitoring VMWare ESXi with the ELK Stack

Monitor anything; this is what fills your head after playing with Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana.

ELK Stack, meet VMWare Server.  Since VMWare’s ESXi runs on some Linux kernel, it shares the logging facilities we’re familiar with on Linux systems.  Going about forwarding syslog messages to a remote box is a bit different thou.  Luckily, VMWare’s Knowledge Base is very thorough if you know where to look.