There is some reason that you want to change IP address on virtual machines as an example, moving virtual machines to a new VLAN or port-group or moving them to another site or replicate virtual machine to an offsite recovery…
There are some types of adapters which installed on HPE servers such as FlexibleLOM, FLR and FLB. We are going to find out that meaning of each type. What’s FlexibleLOM? FlexibleLOM is a standard for HPE network interface cards that…
STOR2RRD is a free and useful tools for SAN and storage performance and health monitoring. The tool is developed by XORUX. STOR2RRD supports wide range of SAN switches and SAN storage from most vendors.
The tool offers you end-to-end views of your storage environment including NAS and SAN and can save you significant money in operation monitoring and by predicting utilization bottlenecks in your virtualized environment.
You can also generate policy-based alerts, view overall health status of your systems, provide capacity reports and forecasting data.
LPAR2RRD is a free tool for performance monitoring on server environments. It's support IBM Power Systems and VMware vSphere. LPAR2RRD can retrieve the platforms performance data without install any agent like VMware vCenter or HMC (Hardware Management Console).
Also there is an agent for extending data collecting and also the tool supports NMON files for collecting data from operating systems.
Starting at Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host 7.4, VMware has support this operating system as VMware Guest OS officially. Maybe, there is need to upgrade or apply patch on ESXi to support the OS.
Actually, Packet Loss occurs when one or more packet can't reach their destination because of some issue such as link congestion, TCP can detect packet loss and send the packet again (During packet recovery process) but packet loss has impact on users, who are using streaming media application and actually all application that using unreliable protocols such as UDP.
Packet Drop is typically discarding packets on different layers after processing packets and packet drop is one of reasons of data loss in some conditions.