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Announcing the VMware vCenter Operations Management pack for NSX-vSphere 1.0

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Following on the heals of our vCNS Management Pack announcement, I have great interest in leveraging and correlating networking data in vCenter Operations. Alongside our growing list of network technology partners, we are working very closely with the NSX team at VMware to drive our NSX – vCenter Operations management solution.

 

We are very excited to announce the General Availability of VMware vCenter Operations Management pack for NSX-vSphere 1.0

The vC Ops Management Pack for NSX-vSphere 1.0 extends the operational management capabilities of vCenter Operations into the areas of virtual and physical data center networking. It provides the following operations capabilities for virtual administrators and network operations administrators, in highly virtualized network environments which use both vSphere and NSX technologies:

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  • Visibility of all NSX networking services deployed within each vSphere cluster including NSX manager, NSX controllers, and NSX data plane services (logical switch, routers, firewalls etc.). Several different pre-defined vCenter Operations widgets are leveraged for representing NSX services.
  • Visibility of vSphere hosts in NSX transport zones, within or across multiple vSphere clusters (for seeing the mobility and routing spans).
  • Search and drill down functions for obtaining the operations health of deployed NSX objects.
  • Embedded dependency rules of both logical and physical networking relationships for problem alerting and root-cause problem solving. This includes detection and alerting of NSX configuration, connectivity, and health problems. All alerts are consolidated into a vCenter Operations Manager alert interface.
  • Extension of the core vCenter Operations Manager health and risk analytics engine for the inclusion of NSX object key performance and health indicators.

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NSX delivers a completely new operational model for networking that breaks through current physical network barriers allowing data center operators to achieve order of magnitude better speed, economics and choice.

Just like server virtualization enables IT to treat physical hosts as a pool of compute capacity, the NSX approach allows IT to treat their physical network as a pool of transport capacity that can be consumed and repurposed on demand.

For more information on NSX, please look here.

The following diagram details the NSX constructs and the Software Defined Data Center Operational Management Solutions:

NSX-vC Ops Topology Slides

Important information for this release (Release notes, documentation and download page) can be found at:


vCenter Operations Management Pack for vCloud Hybrid Service – Installation & Overview

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Note: This post was co-authored by Jonathan Franconi and Dave Overbeek.     In case you missed the announcement, yesterday we announced the availability of the vCenter Operations Management Pack for vCloud Hybrid Service. You can read more about the announcement here: http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/2014/07/introducing-vcenter-operations-management-pack-vcloud-hybrid-service.html The above blog post provides an overview of the Management Pack release […]

David Davis on vCenter Operations – Post #13 – Capacity Analysis of Your vSphere Hosts

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In my last article in this series, Introduction to Capacity Planning from the World View, I covered how the vC Ops World View can be used to analyze, optimize, and forecast, at the highest level, across the entire virtual infrastructure (or even multiple infrastructures). However, most of us don’t spend our time analyzing capacity from the World […]

David Davis on vCenter Operations – Post #14 – Capacity Analysis of Virtual Machines

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In my last article two articles of this series, I covered Introduction to Capacity Planning from the World View and Capacity Analysis of your vSphere Hosts. As you might have guessed, we are started at the top level (the world view) and drilling down deeper to the host level. Now, in this article, we’ll drill down even further, to […]

vCenter Operations Tech Tips: Tip #39 – Capacity Planning for your Infrastructure

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Have you ever wondered what is going on in your virtual infrastructure? Have you ever struggled to see when do you need to scale up or scale down your host infrastructure that runs your VMs? Have you ever thought how do you properly do the capacity planning of your virtualised infrastructure? If your answer to […]

What Not to Miss at VMworld US: The Cloud Operations Management Edition

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Alright folks, VMworld US is almost upon us, and if you are going to be there, you might have already planned out what sessions you are going to attend. Or you might be thinking, “Oh, I’ll make my list in the flight over to San Francisco. There’s plenty of time!” Well, no matter which category you fall […]

Part 2 of HP and VMware: Operational Insight with vCenter Ops and Log Insight for HP Converged Systems

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Last month HP and VMware announced exciting news about the integration of HP’s Converged Systems management plane OneView and vCenter Operations.  Oneview provides streamlined management with unified processes, UI, and APIs across server, storage and networking.  This unification of server, storage and network form a management plane point of view is what makes this vCenter […]

Introducing VMware vRealize Operations Insight!

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Folks, today, Ramin Sayar, SVP & GM, Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware, made some key announcements at VMworld, and outlined in this blog post. They include VMware vRealize Suite, VMware vRealize Operations Insight, and VMware vRealize Air Automation. You can read more about the vRealize Suite in an upcoming blog post by Sajai Krishnan, VP Product […]

Why You Need a Cloud Management Platform to Achieve IT Agility

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Today, Ramin Sayar, SVP & GM, Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware, made some key announcements at VMworld, and outlined in this blog post. They include VMware vRealize Suite, VMware vRealize Operations Insight, and and VMware vRealize Air Automation. You can read about vRealize Operations Insight in the blog post by Himanshu Singh, Senior Product Marketing Manager, […]

Making Hybrid Clouds Run Like A World-Class Athlete

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It’s no secret that IT executives face significant pressure to transform their enterprises into more efficient, effective and productive operations. To satisfy these demands, IT executives must shape up the way they create and manage hybrid clouds. What do we mean by this? In this visually engaging and interactive infographic, IT executives can explore how VMware’s […]

Predictive Analytics: Protecting the Health of Your Cloud

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With so much business critical action in the cloud, the last thing you want is for your Operations team to fail to identify an impending outage. Using predictive analytics in VMware vRealize Operations Insight: Quickly analyze both structured and unstructured data to forecast and resolve issues Automate solutions to improve future response times Optimize capacity […]

David Davis on vCenter Operations – Post #15 – Storage Capacity Analysis

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I’ve written a number of posts on this blog covering how you can perform various forms of capacity analysis with vCenter Operations Manager. This post, about storage capacity analysis, is yet another way that vC Ops can help you with capacity to ensure that you don’t get into trouble. Some of the other posts I’ve […]

Achieving operational insights into NetApp Storage using vCenter Operations

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We are pleased to announce that today one of our vCenter Operations Manager partners, Blue Medora, has released a major update to the what VMware had previously called the vCenter Operations Adapter for NetApp – turning it into a full-blown Management Pack with significant upgrades and out of the box dashboards for improved ease of […]

Log Insight and vCenter Operations – Better Together with vRealize Operations Insight

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This post is authored by Jon Herlocker, CTO, Cloud Operations Management Products, Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware. At VMware, we are personally dedicated to making IT Operations a better place. What does that mean? To me that means providing software and automation that detects and mitigates most issues before they impact your customers, rapidly detects […]

Kemp Technologies releases their Virtual LoadMaster (VLM) application load balancer Management Pack for vCenter Operations

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KEMP Technologies recently announced the general availability of its new Virtual LoadMaster (VLM) application load balancer management pack for vCenter Operations Manager.  We are excited as this Management Pack is the second example vCenter Operations consuming, correlating and displaying load balencer data (the first was our NSX Management Pack). Many organizations use KEMP’s LoadMaster application […]

Stock Analysis in vCenter Operations

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What about literally  correlating business data with IT metrics? For example adding some stock quota to vCenter Operations? Not an everyday use case, but at least imaginable: how the stock of your enterprise relates to the market and to your IT or possibly even production numbers? While presenting vCenter Operations and explaining the concept of […]

David Davis on vCenter Operations – Post #16 – Storage Throughput Analysis

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In my last post, I covered how to perform Storage Capacity Analysis using vCenter Operations Manager. In this post, I’ll cover a similar, but different topic – analyzing storage throughput. Some of the other posts I’ve created around capacity analysis with vCenter Operations Manager are: Introduction to Capacity Planning from the World View Capacity Analysis of your […]

X-IO Technologies Releases their vCenter Operations Management Pack

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The newest Management Pack  for vCenter Operations Manager is from X-IO technologies in support of their ISE storage systems.  The plugin, called “X-IO ISE Management Pack for VMware vCenter Operations” allows you to see ISE specific performance metrics via several included dashboards.  You can also see the relationships between individual ISE storage systems and Datastores […]

vCenter Operations Tech Tips: Tip#40 – Designing a Custom Storage Performance Dashboard using vCOps

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Do you know what it takes to design a custom dashboard in VMware vCenter Operations Manager? If you ever wondered how big that deal is, this post will help you to achieve that. What you want for creating a custom dashboard (in this example a storage monitoring interactive dashboard) is a heat map dashboard with […]

vCenter Operations Tech Tips: Tip#41 – How to Correctly Size vCOps For Your IT Environment

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I am sure there are many people who would have worked on VMware vCenter Operations Manager and used this as a component to monitor their VMware Infrastructure. But when ever you use it, you must account that the vCOPs itself will take certain amount of physical resources that includes, CPU, Memory, Storage & Networking. In […]
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