by Rich Bourdeau If you are interested in learning more about how to efficiently manage VMware NSX in order to deliver secure scalable high-performing applications on demand, you will want to attend some of these VMworld 2015 breakout sessions and hands on labs. Breakout Sessions NET5187 - What’s New in Operations Management for Networking with […]
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VMworld 2015 - Managing VMware NSX with vRealize Suite
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How to take your Data Center from 0 to 60: vSphere with Operations Management
Are you looking for a solution to cope with the demands for more and more services and applications to be delivered anywhere, on any device? Need to ensure higher performance and availability of your IT infrastructure and applications – but worried your data center solutions are not up to speed? Read further to […]
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Secure Healthy Systems with vROps Alerts
Secure Healthy Systems with vROps Alerts By: Cameron Jones, Blue Medora In any enterprise-monitoring tool, alerting is going to be a primary focus. vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) is no exception. Combining external management packs with vROps alerting ensures the health of not only your VMware system but also your entire infrastructure. To gain insight into […]
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VMWorld 2015: Intelligent Workload Management with vRealize Operations 6.1
At this year’s VMworld, a number of new products are being launched, including vRealize Operations 6.1. Intelligent Workload Management is at the top of a list of new capabilities in the latest iteration of vRealize Operations. Intelligent Workload Management The latest 6.1 release is all about Intelligent Workload Management. There are two significant ways in which this […]
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VIDEO – How to Deploy vRealize Operations into a VMware Fusion Lab and Connect to vCenter by David Davis (Post #25)
VMware’s vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) has traditionally required a fair amount of horsepower and some time to deploy into vSphere infrastructure (which isn’t surprising as it’s such a powerful performance and capacity management tool). What this meant is that if you wanted to get some hands-on experience or do some testing with vROps you usually […]
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Top 3 Reasons Why you Need Comprehensive Data Center Visibility by David Davis (Post #26)
The virtual infrastructure is no island. If you treat it like that, you shouldn’t be either. There’s much more in the datacenter world than the virtual infrastructure, it’s called the software defined datacenter (SDDC). The SDDC is more like a powerful and efficient modern city – kind of like “Tomorrow Land” (I haven’t seen the move […]
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Docker detector using Log Insight
For detection of life signs on other ships or planets the Star Trek fleet uses “A sophisticated array of charged cluster quark resonance scanners” which “provide detailed biological data across orbital distances”. (From “The Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual“, written by Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda). We are still designing the intergalactic version […]
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3 Ways to Proactively Manage SAP With vRealize Operations
By: Mike Langdon, Blue Medora The Management Pack for SAP extends the power of the vRealize Operations Manager platform to SAP. Here are three ways to use vRealize Operations to monitor and manage your SAP environment. Relationships On the highest level, the Management Pack for SAP allows you to group your SAP systems into landscapes, […]
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NetFlow: Simplify Network Operations Management for the SDDC
by Damian Miller, NetflowLogic NetFlow/IPFIX NetFlow/IPFIX is a networking protocol that collects IP traffic information as records and sends them to a processing technology such as NetFlow Logic’s NetFlow Integrator for traffic flow analysis. VMware NSX, the networking foundation for the software defined data center (SDDC), supports NetFlow/IPFIX, which is the most common version supported […]
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vRealize Operations Manager Tech Tips: Tip #1 – Custom Datacenter object
In vRealize Operations Manager 6.1 we introduced a new construct called Custom Datacenter (CDC). I wanted to describe how to create Custom Datacenter objects, and how you would leverage these objects. The Custom Datacenter object can be created in the vR Ops UI, and you can add one or more Cluster objects. Not only can […]
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vRealize Operations Manager Tech Tips: Tip #2 – Customizing Symptoms and Alerts in vRealize Operations
I was recently given a use case by a client who was seeing alert noise from the vR Ops 6.1 alert “One or more virtual machine guest file systems are running out of disk space“. This alert is built from three symptoms: “1. Guest file system space usage at warning level” “2. Guest file system space usage […]
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vRealize Operations 6.2: What’s New
VMware vRealize Operations (a.k.a. vROPS) 6.2 is now GA and available on vmware.com. This has been a long awaited update and covers all major areas of the product including installation, configuration, licensing, alerting, dashboards, reports, and policies. Here is what you need to know: Enhanced Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Integration. vRealize Operations now offers enhanced […]
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vRealize Operations 6.2: Intelligent Workload Placement with DRS
Today I want to discuss VMware vRealize Operations Manager v6.2 and specifically its Intelligent Workload Placement feature. This feature works in conjunction with, and compliments DRS to help VMs get the required resources they need, ensuring better performance of the environment and applications. Distributed Resource Scheduler also known as DRS is a well-known and proven […]
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vRealize Suite and vCloud Suite Pricing, Packaging and Licensing Changes: 2016
vRealize Suite and vCloud Suite Pricing, Packaging and Licensing Changes Q1 2016 vRealize Suite 7.0 and vCloud Suite 7.0 Licensing, Packaging and Pricing Updates To better serve our customers managing today’s cloud environment, we have vastly simplified the packaging of our cloud management and compute virtualization product portfolio. Our core product lines now consist of […]
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Monitoring vCenter Health Remotely with vRealize Operations – Part 1
By: Greg Hohertz, Blue Medora Over the years, vCenter has gained more and more importance. As a command center to central administration and a focal point for API access to your vSphere environment, vCenter is a cog in your virtualization environment that brings everything to a halt if it’s not performing or unavailable. In this […]
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Call for papers open for VMworld 2016
It may seem like VMworld 2015 (both San Francisco and Barcelona) was just yesterday, but the reality is that we are already actively preparing for the next one: VMworld 2016. There are couple of changes: 1) the America’s one will take place in Las Vegas; and 2) call for papers is open much sooner this […]
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SDDC Intelligent Operations Management
I’m fortunate. I get a lot of opportunities to meet with customers to discuss all of the new technologies and products that can help them build a more dynamic and flexible software defined data center (SDDC). We will go around the table talking about how these innovations can make their lives better and without fail […]
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Forrester Research Studies Show Significant Growth in Private Cloud
Year over Year Private Cloud Adoption up by More Than a Third There is no doubt that the path to value for Private Clouds has been harder and taken more time than anyone first imagined. The good news is that two new reports from Forrester on Private Cloud Adoption in North America and Europe clearly show […]
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Monitoring vCenter Health Remotely with vRealize Operations – Part 2
By: Greg Hohertz, Blue Medora In Part 1 of this blog, I discussed how you can monitor vCenter’s vPostgres database remotely using Blue Medora’s Management Pack for PostgreSQL. For those of you with larger environments with Oracle or MS SQL databases supporting vCenter, you’ll want to monitor those as well. In this blog I’ll step […]
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vRealize Operations Tech Tip: Building Interactive Dashboards
vRealize Operations ships with a number of predefined dashboards to help visualize the infrastructure from day one of deployment, but a powerful feature of vRealize Operations is the ability to build your own custom dashboards. Dashboards are built up from widgets, which are part of the product and can be used to display various types of different […]
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