Uptime + Sun Zfs/vmware Esx4

by Nov 13, 2009

1. We have some Sun X4500 (48 disks) and would like to see if we can get some zfs-centric disk performance/error monitoring going (zpool status,zpool iostat, perhaps even some dtrace 1-liners). any pointers on how to get started with that using Up.Time?

2. Been monitoring our vcenter/esx environment for about a week now, and its great, however one thing i have noticed is that I see a login/logout by the monitoring user very often, so much that i cant go back more than 2 hours of log entries from vsphere client. I Guess I could workaround this by pointing vcenter/esx to a syslog server but want to see if there is any other option to consider. There may even be an option to have more log lines available to the sphere client?

Thanks!