As part of some recent evaluation work I did on vRealize Operations Manager and following a discussion with our VMware rep I installed vRealize Log Insight. It’s a product I’ve heard about before, largely in conjunction with EVO:RAIL as its part of the automatic deployment, but not a product that I’ve really seen a need for. As part of the vRealize Suite it links nicely into vROps so I thought why not give it a chance and see what it can do. So far I’ve been impressed. I’ve only configured it to monitor my VMware environment but it is also possible to get data from devices outside on the virtual platform. For want of a better example you can see Log Insight as a syslog server or a Splunk Server. There may be other ways of installing vRealize Log Insight Manager but below are the steps I followed to get the platform off the ground and it follows the similar steps to my earlier How-To: VMware vRealize Operations Manager Installation guide

DEPLOYMENT:

Step 1:

Go to VMware vRealize Log Insight  web page and download the vRealize Log Insight  OVA file. You will need a VMware account for this and you will also get a 60-day trial license key. You can also check out the VMware vRealize Log Insight Getting Started Guide and the vRealize Log Insight Administration Guide for more information of what to do within Log Insight. Once you have downloaded the appliance you can go into vCenter and select Deploy from OVF Template.

Step 2:

Browse to the downloaded OVA file, select and click Open

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