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SCOM 2012 – HP Hardware Monitoring on VMware ESXi Servers

Recently in September HP has its latest management pack suite released for System Center Operations Manager called Insight Control for Microsoft System Center 7.1.1 actually it also contains the HP SCCM Integration Kit.  In my case I wanted to monitor HP ESXi hardware and needed the proper HP management packs and software. I always found […]

Quick Post – Visio 2013 Stencils Bluish Single-Colored

Today I had some conceptual work to do and as this always involves some fancy Visio diagrams, I ran into a problem which might also could happen to you. Microsoft has released  great Windows Server 2012 / Office 365 stencils for Visio 2013. You can find them here. As soon you start Visio and import […]

SCOM – Part 1 Create Excel 2013 PowerView Dashboard

Last week I had to travel to China. So far, I haven’t had any experience with Asian countries nor culture, except of the local Chinese restaurant in Switzerland. What I learned, that there are different ways to visualize common scenarios and how important it is to make the visualization readable and understandable, also for foreigners. […]