In this blogpost I want to show you how you can easily create a PowerBI dashboard based on Storage Spaces Direct performance metrics. PowerBI is great in visualizing data and reports are easy to create. Before you can execute the steps in this blogpost you will need to create a PowerBI account on https://www.powerbi.com. I’ve tested the blogpost below with PowerBI Pro account but based on this page it should also work with a PowerBI free account. Looking to Storage Spaces Direct this blogpost is based on Windows Server 2016. I’ve not tested this on earlier versions and I expect that this is only working on 2016 and later. I’ve created this blogpost to monitor my S2D environment hosting the Remote Desktop Service User Profile Disks, so expect that this dashboard is focusing on delivering an overview for that purpose.
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Dashboarding
Squared Up: Upgrading version 1.9 to 2.0
StandardThis blogpost is about upgrading your existing 1.9 version of Squared Up to new released version 2.0. Squared Up is a very rich HTML 5 dashboarding solution with Alert and Reporting functionality. Squared Up can replace your existing Operations Manager Web Console. Version 1.9 already contained very rich functionalities to replace your Web Console but with version 2.0 we get improvements. A list of new functionality and the download can be found here.
SCOM 2012: New updates to Squared Up (version 1.9)
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Speaker at Experts Live 2014
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I’m honored that I can present a System Center Operation Manager session at the Dutch community event of the year! Experts Live is a great event with session about Microsoft different technologies like Azure, Hyper-V, System Center, PowerShell, SQL and Office365. My session at Experts Live is about how to transform your OpsMgr environment from component monitoring to Service Monitoring. Continue reading
OpsLogix VMware Management Pack and Dashboarding capabilities
StandardLast week I had the chance to test the OpsLogix VMware Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager. Recently OpsLogix released the RTM version of this management pack. My goal was to look into the dashboarding possibilities of this management pack. Continue reading