Larry Smith Jr.

Exploring and sharing practical insights on virtualization, cloud technologies, automation, and DevOps. My mission is to empower others to build, automate, and innovate with confidence.

Everything Should Be Virtual - Virtualization, Automation, Infrastructure

VMware NSX 6.0.5 Upgrade Tips

July 22, 2014 2 minute read

So I performed my first NSX upgrade today which overall was not too bad but it did take quite a long time. I ran into a few gotchas along the way and figured...

Highly Available ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) Unicast Mode

June 26, 2014 5 minute read

In the previous post we setup the complete ELK stack from top to bottom. And everything should be working as needed; however one thing you will want to do on...

vCenter Server 5.1 Heartbeat issue

June 18, 2014 less than 1 minute read

I ran into this today and thought I would share with anyone else who runs into this.

Logstash Elasticsearch searchphaseexecutionexception error

June 9, 2014 less than 1 minute read

In the past few days I have come across the following error on two different instances of Logstash.

Highly Available ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) Setup

June 9, 2014 13 minute read

In this post I will be going over how to setup a complete ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) stack with clustered elasticsearch and all ELK components ...