Understanding capacity and having the ability to quickly assess capacity and capacity risk in any environment is critical in today’s software defined data center. vRealize Operations Manager helps you apply demand & allocation capacity planning principles while managing the capacity of your virtual and cloud environments across any object type. The great thing is vRealize […]
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vRealize Operations Tech Tips #8 – Understanding Allocation vs Demand Based Capacity Modeling
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Announcing vRealize Operations Management pack for NSX vSphere and NSX Multi Hypervisor
The SDDC (Software Defined Data Center) value proposition is ubiquitously acknowledged and now it’s just a question of when organizations will adopt the SDDC model and not if organizations will adopt it. People have realized the benefits of having the flexibility and agility provided by SDDC. SDDC has just crossed the chasm and we are […]
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VSAN: Simplifying SDDC Storage operations with vRealize Operations Management Pack for Storage Devices
In my last Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) operations blog, I wrote about simplifying virtual networking (VMware NSX) operations in SDDC using vRealize Operations NSX management pack. In this blog, I’ll cover the other key aspect of SDDC Operations – Storage (Including VSAN) You should definitely try the Management Pack for Storage Devices 6.0 if […]
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Creating DISA STIG Checklists with vRealize Configuration Manager
In my previous life as an InfoSec guy, I was responsible for assessing, enforcing, and ensuring continuous compliance with all the various baselines for which my organization was responsible. At the forefront of this list were a long list of DISA STIGs (Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Implementation Guides) – a daunting task in […]
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Catching up with Cricket World Cup 2015 using vRealize Operations Manager 6.0
This post is to add a little fun to how we use the VMware management solutions in our day to day lives at our workplaces. We know the power of vRealize Operations Manager that allows us to capture structured and unstructured data from literally any object in your datacenter, run smart analytics on this data […]
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Support for NFS/iSCSI & VSAN in vRealize Operations Management pack for Storage Devices 6.0.1
“Midmarket CIOs are frustrated with the high costs and complexity of the storage systems required to house this data. Rapid data growth continues to put pressure on capital budgets and increase the complexity of managing hybrid storage environments. Midmarket IT organizations can overcome this challenge by evaluating emerging storage vendors and new storage technologies and […]
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Exploring New vRealize Operations Capabilities – David Davis Post #21
In my last post, I covered how you can view and test, first hand, how vRealize Operations and Log Insight can be integrated to work together in the VMware Hands on Labs (HoL). In this post, I’d like to explore some of the many new vRealize Operations, version 6.0, features. While vRealize Operations 6 was […]
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The return of the One Click Cluster Capacity Dashboard in vRealize Operations 6.0
Since the release of vRealize Operations Manager 6.0, I have received an over-whelming amount of requests to re-create the one click cluster capacity dashboard on vROps 6.0. I should mention here that the dashboard xml, which I created with vCenter Operations 5.x would not work with vRealize Operations 6.0, since a number of metrics have changed in […]
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Migrating to vRealize Operations 6 – David Davis Post #22
No one likes to have to upgrade their software. Sometimes it seems like wasted time away from more important projects, it can be frustrating (in some cases), and in other cases there is a cost to upgrade (either monetarily or from downtime). HOWEVER, we all enjoy the benefits that the latest version brings us (to […]
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Understanding Relationship Mappings in vRealize Operations
vRealize Operations provides admins a multitude of capabilities to help them manage and simplify their IT environments. One of the most powerful features, relationship mapping, often goes a little unnoticed by some of the users. Behind the scenes vRealize Operations relationship mapping out the relationship between each resource kind gets exposed within vRealize Operations. A […]
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VMware Introduces Best Practices and Compliance Solution for Docker Engine
By Sajai Krishnan, vice president of product marketing, Cloud Management Business Unit Lately, I’ve been asked by customers how we can help them to manage and secure container environments. We have spent years working closely with our customers to develop best practices around securing virtual machines even for the most stringent production workloads. However, given […]
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Vblock Management with vRealize Operations Insight
Vblock is an incredibly popular converged hardware/software offering from our friends at VCE. For those not in the know, VCE is an EMC business, and started life as a joint venture between VMware, EMC, and Cisco. It produces pre-assembled, rack-based solutions which contain Cisco UCS compute notes, Cisco network switches, EMC storage, and VMware software. […]
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Understanding the Density badge – vRealize Operations Tech Tips #14
I recently got asked to explain the Density badge in vRealize Operations Manger. Please note that videos of all the badges (and more…) are available at this page. https://www.vmware.com/support/vrealize-operations-Manager-6-video.html (You’re welcome!!) Density in vRealize Operations Manager compares the current density with the optimal density that has been determined by vR Ops based on Policy. The […]
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Managing NetApp Storage with vRealize Operations Analysis Badge & 3rd Party Extensions
From the earliest versions of vCenter Operations to the current vRealize Operations incarnation, we have been offering a multitude of capabilities to help IT administrators effectively manage, troubleshoot and simplify their infrastructure. One of the most powerful of these capabilities is the ‘Analysis Badge.’ Analysis Badges can be used to provide ‘at-a-glance’ views in numerous […]
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Using Smart Alerts in vRealize Operations 6.0 - David Davis Post #23
vRealize Operations 6.0 is far more advanced than vCenter Operations 5.x and one of those major enhancements is "Smart Alerts". In this 23rd post in my series on vCOps/vROps, I'll explain what Smart Alerts are, how they can help you, and how to use them. This is an important feature that you need to be […]
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Capacity Management in SDDC - Part 8
If you land into this Part 8 directly, I'd recommend that you at least review from Part 5 first. If you want to review from the conceptual stage, then go to Part 1. This is a series of blog post on Capacity Management in SDDC. Tier 2 and 3 (lowest) To recap, you need to […]
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Management Pack for Storage Devices (now with VSAN): Beta
We're pleased to announce signups for the beta program for the vRealize Operations Management Pack for Storage Devices (MPSD), as reported on the VMware Storage Blog. This iterations of the program includes features to manage the latest version of Virtual SAN (VSAN). We're looking for folks who'd like to test out the latest iteration of our MPSD. The 6.0 version […]
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Guided Remediation with vRealize Operations
Written by Chima Njaka, vRealize Operations Product Line Manager Like many in the SF Bay Area, I’ve been caught up in the epic NBA Final championship series between the local Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers. As of this writing, 3 exciting games of the best-of-seven series have been completed, with the first two […]
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True Visibility with Custom Reports in vRealize Operations: Great Blog
I found a great blog from our friends at Blue Medora on custom reports in vRealize Operations. Definitely worth a read: By Mike Langdon: Last month, VMware’s Cloud Management blog post showed you how to integrate discrete management packs with custom dashboards. Another key tool in the vRealize Operations utility belt is the reports system. While the core […]
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Post #24 - Creating Custom Policies in vROps 6.x
A large part of the software-defined datacenter is policy-based management (heard of SPBM?) so how do you manage policies in vRealize Operations and how do you create your own custom policies? Let's find out! Understanding Policies in vRealize Operations 6 Before you start creating custom policies in vRealize Operations 6.x, you should first understand how […]
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