Hands-on Lab: Getting Started with vRealize…

Hands-on Lab: Getting Started with vRealize Network Insight

Hands-on Lab: Getting Started with vRealize…

Use VMware Network Insight to build an optimized, highly available, and secure network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. Learn about Micro-segmentation, application discovery, mapping, and planning. Experience a walkthrough of a real-time flow rendering across overlays and physical …Read More


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vRealize Log Insight 8.8 Step by Step…

vRealize Log Insight 8.8 Step by Step Installation Guide

vRealize Log Insight 8.8 Step by Step…

The latest version of Log Insight version 8.8 has released recently and through this post I’ll show you the detailed step by step guide to deploy it on your environment. The latest version can be download from below link on official VMware site.


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Send vRLI Alerts to Microsoft Teams

Send vRLI Alerts to Microsoft Teams

Send vRLI Alerts to Microsoft Teams

Today we can send vRLI Alerts to vROps, we can generate emails on them, and there are out of the box Webhooks for Slack, Pager Duty, and vRO. What about Microsoft Teams? Well, we can create a custom Webhook for it, so what does that look like. Let’s first generate a TEAMs URL to which we will […]


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Creating vRealize Log Insight Clusters

Creating vRealize Log Insight Clusters

Creating vRealize Log Insight Clusters

In this post will discuss how to create the vRealize Log Insight Cluster. Lab Environment: vRealize Log Insight 8.4 Node 1 and Node 2 Requirements: Deploy two vRealize Log Insight Appliances Prepare a virtual IP address for vRealize Log Insight Cluster After deploying two vRealize Log Insight […]


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vROps Management Pack Builder

vROps Management Pack Builder

vROps Management Pack Builder

For years customers have been asking for a vROps Management Pack Builder, it’s finally here! The Beta announcement was made in March and is actively progressing, the latest version of the Beta just dropped. What is the vROps Management Pack Builder (MPB)? Deployed as an appliance, the MPB gives [..]


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vROps Cluster Architecture: Stand-Alone, HA,…

vROps Cluster Architecture: Stand-Alone, HA, and CA

vROps Cluster Architecture: Stand-Alone, HA,…

We last discussed vROps Clustering almost two years ago, it’s time for an update! You can build a vROps Cluster several different ways: Stand-Alone, Highly Available (HA), or Continuously Available (CA). Let’s start with the base option, Stand-alone options look like this. Single Primary Node […]


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What’s New in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.8

What’s New in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.8

What’s New in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.8

Thanks to the hard work of our product managers and engineers we have another exciting release of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. Version 8.8 became generally available last week, and in this blog, I will explain some of the key updates you will want to know about. If you are not familiar […]


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VMware vRealize Operations 8.6.3 is Now Available

VMware vRealize Operations 8.6.3 is Now Available

VMware vRealize Operations 8.6.3 is Now Available

vRealize Operations has received its latest update on April 25, 2022. vRealize Operations 8.6.3 is a maintenance release which resolves several important security, performance, stability, and functionality issues identified in the product.


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Extract Fields with vRealize Log Insight

Extract Fields with vRealize Log Insight

Extract Fields with vRealize Log Insight

VMware vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) is a powerful logging tool with all sorts of capabilities, one of them being the ability to extract fields from log entries. Let’s explore. Out of the box, each vRLI log entry will contain certain fields like source, event_type, file path, hostname, and more. […]


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Capture Certificate Expirations with vRLI

Capture Certificate Expirations with vRLI

Capture Certificate Expirations with vRLI

vRLI is up and running, you’re collecting vCenter events, tasks and alarms, as well as ESXi Host logs. In addition, vRLI is receiving logs from F5 BIG-IP, Citrix NetScaler, NetApp FAS, and more. Let’s use it to capture Certificates that have expired and Certificates that will be expiring. […]


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Discover Guest OS Crashes with vRLI and send…

Discover Guest OS Crashes with vRLI and send Alerts to vROps!

Discover Guest OS Crashes with vRLI and send…

We’ve deployed vRLI, configured our vCenters and ESXi Hosts to send logs to it and now we want to use it to find VMs that have crashed. Let’s do it! Go to Interactive Analytics and search for “guest operating system has crashed”. I’ve found five log entries with this string since I started […]


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Beta Program: vRealize Operations Management…

Beta Program: vRealize Operations Management Pack Builder

Beta Program: vRealize Operations Management…

Last fall we introduced the entitlement of all VMware vRealize True Visibility Suite storage and compute management packs with all vRealize Operations editions and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. The vRealize community has been excited to take vRealize Operations into […]


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vROps: How many more VMs will fit in a Cluster?

vROps: How many more VMs will fit in a Cluster?

vROps: How many more VMs will fit in a Cluster?

A data analytics engine, a notification mechanism, a costing platform, a performance analyzer, a capacity planner: vROps is all of those things and then some. This blog will focus on the capacity planning capabilities of vROps. The ability to Optimize Capacity is a core capability of vROps and […]


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Announcing VMware vRealize Network Insight…

Announcing VMware vRealize Network Insight Universal

Announcing VMware vRealize Network Insight…

We are excited that today customers now have VMware vRealize® Network Insightâ„¢ Universal available. This new solution will give customers the ability to deploy vRealize Network Insight as a SaaS or provide the customer an option to start on-premises then move to SaaS later when they are ready […]


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vRealize Operations Node Architecture and…

vRealize Operations Node Architecture and Internals

vRealize Operations Node Architecture and…

Since I started to work with vRealize Operations (vROps) I was amazed by its flexible architecture: by means of a single virtual appliance you can deploy scale-out, high availability and even business continuity deployments. It is extremely flexible as it is suitable for any kind of environment [..]


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VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for…

VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Horizon MP4H 2.0

VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for…

The MP4H (Management Pack for Horizon) 2.0 was recently released – Release Notes. It was time to give it a go, and the best place IMHO is VMware Test Drive, as they have a larger environment and there is alot of data for simulation compared to our small homelab. Let’s take a look at […]


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