With that said you can already do a lot with these 25 OSI licenses.Īs an example, take a medium size infrastructure with 1 vCenter and 20 ESXi hosts. Only 1 vCenter license per Log Insight instance.There is, however, a little caveat about the 25 OSI licenses included in the vCenter license: For example, if you buy 2 CPU licenses for your dual CPU hypervisor (VMware, Hyper-V…), you will be able to send logs from the hypervisor itself and all the guest VMs running on it Per CPU: Any log data sources from a single CPU, regardless of hypervisor or number of guest OSs.vCenter Server includes 25 OSI licenses out of the box. Per OSI (Operating System Instance): Any unique source that sends logs to the appliance.You can then add third party content packs that are available via a marketplace accessible in the web interface of the appliance.

By default in Log Insight, you get content packs for vROPS 6.7, vSphere and VSAN. Obviously, the VMware content packs offer amazing visibility into the logs of vCenter and ESXi. “Content packs are plugins to VMware vCenter Log Insight that provide pre-defined knowledge about specific types of events such as log messages.” Agents available to improve Guest OSes logging.Can work in clustered mode / High availability.Gathers logs from any systems, not just VMware.Well, let me tell you that if you are used to “log hunting” in your environment and cross-reference the records, this will change your life big time and the configuration won’t take long! And guess what, you are entitled to 25 Log Insight OSI licenses with your vCenter server license. A lot of administrators never look into implementing such a solution because they think products made by big companies like VMware are expensive, they don’t have time to configure it or that they simply don’t need it.

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