Petri IT Knowledgebase Team

In this video post, Josh Stephens, Head Geek at SolarWinds, explains what NetFlow is and why all network engineers need to be using it. NetFlow offers a wide range of features that allow easy monitoring and analysis of network traffic through ordinary routers and switches.

Deploying performance and fault monitoring tools to monitor and configure your infrastructure adds layers of complexity; multiple products to log into & maintain, in addition to out of control alerts. Solve the issue of application management overload with a single application containing all your performance and alert data.

A walk-through with Josh Stevens, Head Geek at SolarWinds, on configuring a Cisco router to export NetFlow data. In this video Josh covers the manual setup since there could be situations when NetFlow Configurator might not work for you, for instance, if you don’t have SNMP access to your routers. Full transcript provided.

In this post, Kasia Lorenc sits down with Josh Stephens, VP of Technology at SolarWinds to learn more about what SolarWinds does, the products they currently sell and what to expect in the coming months.

Anti-virus software is a great way to protect your machines against attack. Unfortunately they can sometimes interfere with software that is running on your machine; anti-virus exclusions fix this. In this article we discuss anti virus exclusion guidelines for Microsoft products.

The following article explores the puzzling situation in which an external disk drive behaves as if it is “Read Only” but there is no indication in the Windows UI that indicates this is the case. A walk-through is provided to troubleshoot and ultimately provide a solution to this situation.

Backing up virtual machines presents different challenges than backing up physical machines. Ignoring these challenges may lead to an incomplete or even failed backup even though it may not be apparent until you try and restore the backup. This brief article goes over these important considerations and will help you make sure your VM backups are complete.

In the event that you have a VM that hangs and becomes unresponsive and it resides on a host machine with other VMs that are running fine, simply restarting the host machine is not an option. In this article, learn alternative methods to killing a hung VM without interfering with other healthy VMs.

There are times when you may need to manipulate a virtual machine and it could be valuable to know the VM’s process ID. If, for example, the VM has become unresponsive, knowing the process ID could help in closing the VM without interrupting another VM on the same host machine. This brief article will show you how to obtain a VM’s process ID and GUID.

Backing up virtual machines is a little different than backing up a traditional system. The following article provides a nice walk through for backing up virtual machines on Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V using Windows Server Backup.