David Davis on vRealize Operations – Post #35 –…

David Davis on vRealize Operations – Post #35 – NEW! VMware VSAN Dedicated Management Pack in vROps 6.4

David Davis on vRealize Operations – Post #35 –…

In case you missed my last post, I covered one of the coolest features in the vRealize Operations version 6.4 — predictive distributed resource scheduler. In this post, I’m going to cover another one of the very coolest features of vROps 6.4 and that is the new dedicated VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) management pack.


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Picking the right design for VMware vRealize…

Picking the right design for VMware vRealize Orchestrator – via TechTarget

Picking the right design for VMware vRealize…

Choosing the right vRealize Orchestrator design option will determine how effective your environment runs. This chapter excerpt can help you make the right decision.


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Capacity planning with vRops

Capacity planning with vRops – via StarWind Blog

Capacity planning with vRops

Capacity planning is one of the tasks that every IT organization need to do, but most do very poorly. This is not out of bad will or lack of skills. Most often, it is because they lack a good way of dealing with all the changes, past, present and future.


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Log Insight User Alerts from the VCOPS User

Log Insight User Alerts from the VCOPS User – via SFlanders.net

Log Insight User Alerts from the VCOPS User

In my last post, I covered the new user alerts administration page in Log Insight 4.0. On that page, you may have noticed alerts from the mysterious VCOPS_* user. In this post, I would like to explain why the VCOPS_* user may exist and why you should not modify alerts from that user. Read on to learn more!


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vSphere with Operations Management – Intelligent Workload Placement

vSphere with Operations Management -…

vSphere with Operations Management leverages vRealize Operations to better optimize a vSphere environment’s resources and workloads. This video focuses on how vR Ops can manage workloads within datacenter or custom datacenter objects. Workload Placement also features its own dashboard which is available out of the box. This dashboard takes a look at metrics such as CPU Demand, Memory Consumed, and vSphere Configuration Limit. It then applies those across datacenter and/or custom datacenters, clusters, and individual hosts themselves. The video will walk through a high-level overview of what Workload Placement is, how it interacts with vSphere’s DRS, and then walking through a use case of balancing a workload imbalance between clusters….Read More


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Log Insight 4.0: New User Alerts Administration

Log Insight 4.0: New User Alerts Administration – via SFlanders.net

Log Insight 4.0: New User Alerts Administration

Log Insight takes customer experience seriously. The number two request on the Log Insight community was to improve alerts. I am happy to announce this feature is available in Log Insight 4.0. Read on to learn more!


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vSphere with Operations Management – DRS Dashboard

vSphere with Operations Management – DRS Dashboard

vSphere with Operations Management – DRS Dashboard

vSphere with Operations Management leverages vRealize Operations to better optimize a vSphere environment’s resources and workloads. This video focuses on vR Ops’ new DRS dashboard. This dashboard is available out of the box and can be used to monitor and manage clusters’ DRS configuration and workloads. The video will walk through a high-level overview on DRS followed by going through an example of a host in a cluster being under abnormally high load and how to resolve the issue without ever…Read More


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vSphere Optimization Assessment – Michael Ryom

vSphere Optimization Assessment – Michael Ryom

vSphere Optimization Assessment – Michael Ryom

If you have not hear of vSphere Optimization Assessment(VOA), I do not blame you. It is one of the assessments VMware does not talk to much of. It is a partner tool(management pack for partner) used together with vRops. The title says it all, it is all about optimizing the resources you already have. So instead of always buying more hosts or storage, you can optimize your current environment and save money. The way it works is it utilises the intelligent of vRops with some new reports. Based…Read More


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Next-Level Nagios Monitoring with vROps

Next-Level Nagios Monitoring with vROps

Next-Level Nagios Monitoring with vROps

When it comes to understanding how your hosts and systems are performing, Nagios serves as one of the best infrastructure monitoring tools in the industry. Now, with the launch of the Blue Medora Nagios Management Pack for vRealize Operations, you can extend your monitoring to a deeper level so you have essential insight into issues when they arise, pinpointing problems faster and driving optimal performance across your infrastructure.


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vRops – Super Metric enhancements – Michael Ryom

vRops – Super Metric enhancements – Michael Ryom

vRops – Super Metric enhancements – Michael Ryom

One of the areas in where vRops 6.3 has been getting a huge improvement is Super Metrics. You can read about vRops 6.3 enhancements here: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/vrops-6-3-walkthrough-new-features#SuperMetricenhancements It might seem some what trivial – the enhancements. The addition of a few new operators. I guarantee you it is not, these new operators are a game changer for Super Metrics. Lets recap all the new operators Operators Function Example [] Array [A, B, C] == Equal…Read More


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VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon and…

VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon and Published Applications 6.4, Part 1: What’s New

VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon and…

We are excited to announce that VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon and Published Applications 6.4 has reached general availability! This latest version includes many new features that benefit VMware Horizon 7 and Citrix customers. In this release, you will find the following features: App Volumes – Monitors AppStack attach time during the user login process. Application usage – Reports who used which applications and when, for RDSH applications and desktops, and also for virtual desktops. Application-crash alerts – Notifies administrators of application crashes. Root-cause analysis dashboard – Quickly pinpoints what is causing user issues. Cloud Pod Architecture – Quickly identifies the pod that is hosting a user or session, and the…Read More


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Increasing the Java Heap size for vRealize…

Increasing the Java Heap size for vRealize Orchestrator Client (7.x)

Increasing the Java Heap size for vRealize…

Back in January 2015 I wrote an article on how to modify the Java heap settings for the vCenter Orchestrator client when working with very large workflows. Since vRealize Orchestrator 7.x has been …Read More


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VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon and…

VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon and Published Applications 6.4, Part 1: What’s New

VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon and…

We are excited to announce that VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon and Published Applications 6.4 has reached general availability! This latest version includes many new features that benefit VMware Horizon 7 and Citrix customers. The post VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon and Published Applications 6.4, Part 1: What’s New appeared first on VMware End-User Computing Blog .


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vRealize Network Insight Bulk Import of Data…

vRealize Network Insight Bulk Import of Data Sources

vRealize Network Insight Bulk Import of Data…

I’ve been rolling out quite a few vRealize Network Insight deployments (labs, Proof-of-Concepts) and while the installation of NI is a cake walk (see automated installer here), add the data…Posted in Scripting by Martijn Smit Leave A Comment The post vRealize Network Insight Bulk Import of Data Sources appeared first on VMGuru .


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vROps Editions: Enterprise

vROps Editions: Enterprise

vROps Editions: Enterprise

By Kyle Wassink This is part of a blog series on VMware vRealize Operations Manager Editions. The series breaks down the key aspects and differentiators between the three vROps Editions (Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise), including the critical components of extensibility and customization. The primary source of extensibility in vRealize Operations comes from Blue Medora’s True The post vROps Editions: Enterprise appeared first on VMware Cloud Management .


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Multitenant Use of VMware vRealize® Operations™…

Multitenant Use of VMware vRealize® Operations™ as a Service

Multitenant Use of VMware vRealize® Operations™…

Every third Thursday of the month on the vCloud Blog, we aim to publish blogs around vCloud Architecture Toolkit for Service Providers, which is a set of reference documents designed to help you construct a superior working cloud solution leveraging current technologies, recommended practices and innovative tools that have been proven in real-world enterprises.


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