I wanted to provide you with an update on some of the recent updates to VMware vCenter Hyperic and of course the relevant content that can be consumed through VMware vCenter Operations Manager. Microsoft SQL server plugin now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2014. In addition to supporting the new version of MSSQL we have updated […]
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vCenter Operations Tech Tips: Tip #42 – Latest Plugin Updates in vCenter Hyperic
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David Davis on vCenter Operations – Post #17 – vCOps Tips for Success
In my last post, I covered how to perform Storage Throughput Analysis using vCenter Operations Manager. In this post, I’d like to take a step back and provide a quick reference of some of the things I hope that you’ve learned so far in my vC Ops series of posts, all wrapped up as “vC Ops Tips […]
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Introducing vRealize Operations 6.0 – Delivering Intelligent Operations From Apps to Storage
Folks, today at VMworld Barcelona, we announced VMware vRealize Operations 6.0 (formerly vCenter Operations Management Suite). You can read more about today’s announcements in this press release, as well as in this blog post by Ramin Sayar. In this post, I’d like to give you an overview of what’s new and exciting in vRealize Operations 6.0. For complete details on […]
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vRealize Suite Delivers Enhanced Resource Reclamation
by Rich Bourdeau Do you have a VM sprawl problem? Customers tell me all the time that somewhere between 5% and 15% of their resources are likely to be inactive and no longer needed. Lease policies address transient applications like development, test, modeling, simulation, but what about all those applications that are supposed to be […]
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David Davis on vCenter Operations – Post #18 – What is the vC Ops Custom Interface and Why Do you Care?
In my last post, I covered some of my favorite vC Ops Tips for Success, based on what I have learned during my testing of vC Ops and covered in my vC Ops series of posts,. In this post, I’d like to talk about something you’ve likely heard about but may not have known what it […]
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vRealize Suite Provides Operational Insight to facilitate Resource Right Sizing
By Rich Bourdeau In order to effectively manage your cloud services, you need the ability to not only provision new machines or applications; you need to the ability to manage those services throughout their lives. That means the ability to reconfigure an application to add or remove component machines or change resources (CPU, memory, storage, […]
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The Power of the vRealize Suite – Private Cloud Success Stories from the Trenches
by Rich Bourdeau It’s all about the Applications As an IT manager, your goal is to empower the business to become more agile by providing IT services to the business quicker. However, if you are only automating the delivery of infrastructure services you are only solving part the problem. While it may only take […]
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Monitoring RAC using Blue Medora’s vCOPs Management Pack for Oracle EM
Relisted from a Blue Medora blog. Blue Medora’s 3.4 release of the vC Ops Management Pack for Oracle EM has a new feature designed to make creating dashboards for Oracle RAC clusters easier and better. When looking at a RAC cluster, you might want to aggregate performance metrics about the databases it it. So far […]
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David Davis on vRealize Operations – Post #19 – vROps on VMware Hands On Labs (HoL)
In my last post, I covered what the vC Ops Custom Interface is and why you should care about it. In this post, I’d like to cover something that I think is just plain “cool”. But first, a little background… Recently, VMware has rebranded vCenter Operations Management Suite as vRealize Operations – as part of the […]
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vRealize Operations Tech Tips #1 – Smart Alerts – Part 1 of 4
The General Availability date for vRealize Operations 6.0 is right around the corner and the new version is full of powerful and user-friendly features to help you better manage your IT environment. Some of the new features are major updates that will ensure your environment is always performing at its best and you are meeting […]
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Orchestration with Hitachi Storage
In pursuit of efficiency and automation, customers cutting across geographies and verticals deploy vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) in their vSphere environments. vRO is fast becoming a must-have tool in every virtual infrastructure admin’s repertoire. VMware’s strategic partner Hitachi Data Systems recently launched vRO plug-in that facilitates automation and orchestration of tasks that involve Hitachi Storage (supporting […]
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vRealize Operations Tech Tips #2 – Smart Alerts – Part 2 of 4
Our last blog on this topic was very conceptual, where we introduced you to the new Smart Alerts feature of vRealize Operations. We explained the new alert definitions and how these alerts are made up of symptoms, recommendations and actions. These alert definitions are built by subject matter experts and provided to you out-of-the-box (OOTB), […]
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David Davis on vRealize Operations – Post #20 – Log Insight 2.0 and vROps 6.0 Integration in VMware Hands On Labs
In my last post, I covered how you can gain access to the latest version of vRealize Operations (formerly vCenter Operations Management Suite) before it’s available to download by using the VMware Hands On Labs (HoL). In that article, I walked you through how VMware’s HoL offers 6 different labs around the vRealize Operations Insight […]
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vRealize Operations Tech Tips #3 – Smart Alerts – Part 3 of 4
If you have been following this Tech Tips thread over the past couple of weeks you will recall we have introduced you to the new concept of Smart Alerts in vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 with their OOTB recommendation and actions. You have also seen these alerts in action to help you manage the day-to-day health and performance of your software […]
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vRealize Operations Tech Tips #4 – Smart Alerts – Part 4 of 4
Here it is…the big finish for Smart Alerts and we are ending with what many might consider the most important part…Actions! As you now know, Smarts Alerts are defined by a set of symptoms, which can be made up of static or dynamic thresholds for collected metrics, faults, 3rd party events, badges, etc. Each alert […]
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vRealize Operations Tech Tips #5 – The New and Improved UI
vRealize Operations Manager provides a new “merged” UI that combines the best of the previous vSphere and Custom UIs. Whereas before you were confronted with two different looking and feeling interfaces you now see a clean and simple, easy-to-use UI which includes daily recommendations, dashboards, quick links, help features, workspaces (aka wizards), alerts, heatmaps, etc. […]
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Available to Download Now: vRealize Operations 6.0, vRealize Log Insight 2.5, and vRealize Operations Insight 6.0
At VMware, we focus on helping customers simplify their IT Operations Management, and have a strong set of solution offerings to that objective. We’re excited to share that today the following VMware products have reached General Availability: vRealize Operations 6.0 (Free Trial; Download; Documentation) vRealize Log Insight 2.5 (Free Trial; Download; Documentation) vRealize Operations Insight […]
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The Power of VMware vRealize Suite at Choice Hotels
by Rich Bourdeau I came across this video: Choice Hotels Slashes IT Provisioning Times and Improves Performance with vRealize Suite. I’ve summarized their story below, but if you have 3 minutes I highly recommend you watch the video to learn first-hand about how VMware vRealize Suite cloud management platform improved IT service delivery times and […]
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vRealize Operations Tech Tips #6 – Understanding Capacity Planning Terminology
vRealize Operations Manager continues lead the industry with its capacity planning functionality by enhancing its capacity algorithms, providing even more flexibility, better out of the box default options and initial configuration wizards to help you set up your capacity policies. Build a capacity “What-if-scenario” to determine your future needs and hardware purchases and commit them […]
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vRealize Operations Tech Tips #7 – Filtering the vRealize Operations Manager UI based on Adapter
Today’s #TechTip is the answer to the question: “Why is it in certain areas of the vRealize Operations Manager UI do I only see a small subset of the data and relationships, that I know are there?” I recently had this question come up, so here is a short video on how to get what […]
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