[zenoss-users] Zenoss and VM's

[James Alspach]

We are starting to make the move to virtualization (we are using
XenSource but the specifics do not matter for my question) and I am
wondering how others are handling this in Zenoss?  Is there any way to
note what physical server a virtual server is running on?  With the
fluid nature of VM's does this even make sense?  Maybe it is up to me to
know that if servers X, Y and Z are offline, there is most likely a
problem on physical server N. 

How about just noting that a server is virtual? For those machines, the
HW Make and Models are no longer important.  Maybe I could do something
there. Does the physical server become a location?

 

Anyway, as you can tell I am still thinking about all of this.  What are
your thoughts?  How are you doing it? Is there even a need to put this
info in Zenoss?

 

Thanks;

James

 

PS Although I love XenSource and Zenoss...one of them will have to
change their name. I am forever typing Xenoss or ZenSource... ;-)

 

 

 

 

 

James Alspach
Systems Analyst II

Shasta County Office of Education

1644 Magnolia avenue

Redding, California

96003
jalspach at shastacoe.org <mailto:jalspach at shastacoe.org> 
(530) 225-0293

 

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