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vRealize Operations Manager—Avoiding an Out-of-Space Situation [blogs.vmware.com/tam]

vRealize Operations Manager—Avoiding an…

There is no doubt that vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) is a very powerful tool that helps you with monitoring, troubleshooting, and planning your datacenter workloads and components. You can find a lot of blog posts, webcasts, presentations, and recordings on how the product can be used because it benefits both worlds—both technical folks and the management layers of the organization. vROps provides high-level dashboards, details on specific objects, the history, and trends.

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Log Insight 4.3: Agent Auto-Upgrade [sflanders.net]

Log Insight 4.3: Agent Auto-Upgrade

Log Insight has featured a Tech Preview of the agent auto-upgrade feature for the last two releases. I am happy to announce that as of Log Insight 4.3, this feature is now fully supported. Read on to learn more!

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Troubleshooting VMs Connectivity with vRealize Network Insight [blogs.vmware.com/consulting]

Troubleshooting VMs Connectivity with vRealize…

In today’s datacentre, the rapid need to deploy business applications in minutes is necessary to keep the business ahead of the game. It is even more crucial to keep security and rapid networking configuration in control. So, how can a network administrator get to the bottom of a network issue in a matter of seconds in this new cloud era?

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Access Internal REST APIs in vR Ops with PowerShell [blogs.vmware.com/management]

Access Internal REST APIs in vR Ops with…

The following blog post originated on the personal blog of VMware Sr. Systems Engineer, Vinith Menon. With his permission, I am reposting this content here on the official VMware Cloud Management blog. In this post, Vinith provides a way to access the vRealize Operations internal APIs via Powershell. The public APIs can be accessed through the PowerCLI module for vRealize Operations, but there are some useful APIs to explore in the internal API set. Be aware that internal APIs are subject to change or removal with any new release, so use at your own risk.

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Troubleshooting Videos for vRealize Operations Manager, Workspace ONE, and NSX Now Available in the Learning Zone! [blogs.vmware.com/education]

Troubleshooting Videos for vRealize Operations…

This month the Learning Zone was focused on troubleshooting for vRealize, Workspace ONE, and NSX. The following videos can now be accessed by Standard and Premium subscribers:

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vR Ops 6.5 What’s New: Improved Scalability [blogs.vmware.com/management]

vR Ops 6.5 What’s New: Improved Scalability

vRealize Operations 6.5 became generally available this month and in that release we announced improved scalability for new and existing vR Ops clusters. These improvements bring a new cluster node size, supported memory scale-up options and increased capacity for existing nodes. In this blog post we will cover these product enhancements in further detail. We will also take a quick look at the updated sizing guide.

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Understanding #vROps High Availability [definit.co.uk]

Understanding #vROps High Availability

While there is a reasonable amount of information about how HA works in vROps I have found there is still some confusion as to how HA actually works with vROps or rather what are the benefits and perhaps more importantly the cost for enabling the feature.

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Automatically upgrade EPOps Agents using vROps 6.5 [vxpresss.blogspot.com]

Automatically upgrade EPOps Agents using vROps 6.5

During the first episode of vROps Webinar Series, someone asked a question about how to upgrade the end point operations agents automatically using vROps UI. The feature is available with vROps 6.5 admin UI. The vROps 6.5 documentation is pretty comprehensive and one can easily find the steps here.

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vRealize Operations Manager Gems [starwindsoftware.com/blog]

vRealize Operations Manager Gems

Working with vRops over the last years has taught me one thing. The development of vRops goes so fast. Sometimes so fast that you do not realize when or what has changed. However, there are many “hidden” gems in vRops, which will make you and the product shine even more.

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Did You Know #6 – Using custom metrics groups in vROps for troubleshooting [vxpresss.blogspot.com]

Did You Know #6 – Using custom metrics groups…

Welcome back to the Did You Know Series on vRealize operations Manager. As I mentioned in the first part of this series, the goal here is to unearth the Best Kept Secrets of vRealize Operations Manager.

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Upgrading to vROps 6.5 [vrealize.wordpress.com]

Upgrading to vROps 6.5

vROps 6.5 has been in talks since the day it was released. In my last blog I shared information on what’s new in vROps 6.5 so in this blog I’ll be showing how to upgrade your existing vROps environment to 6.5

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vR Ops 6.5 What’s New: Improved Scalability [blogs.vmware.com/management]

vR Ops 6.5 What’s New: Improved Scalability

vRealize Operations 6.5 became generally available this month and in that release we announced improved scalability for new and existing vR Ops clusters. These improvements bring a new cluster node size, supported memory scale-up options and increased capacity for existing nodes. In this blog post we will cover these product enhancements in further detail. We will also take a quick look at the updated sizing guide.

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VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon and Published Applications 6.4, Part 4: Memory Usage, Support, and Enhancements [blogs.vmware.com/euc]

VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon and…

This blog post addresses new features in VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon and Published Applications 6.4 dealing with memory usage, support, and some enhancements.

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What’s New in vRealize Operations 6.5 – Video Interview with Taruna Gandhi [VMware Cloud Management Blog]

What’s New in vRealize Operations 6.5 – Video…

According to Taruna, with vRealize Operations 6.5 VMware is continuing to integrate with Log Insight, taking things a step further, says Gandhi, so that now Log Insight is a tab within vROps. This means customers have access to their log data at their fingertips; what this deeper integration also means is that if you have an object you can see the metrics and logs side by side and in context, Gandhi tells us, which is a powerful capability when you’re troubleshooting problems.

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Technical Sales 201 – What’s New in vRealize Log Insight 4.3 [youtube.com]

Technical Sales 201 – What’s New in vRealize…

In this enablement session, I provide a Technical Sales 201 level overview of the recent release of vRealize Log Insight 4.3. vRealize Log lnsight delivers heterogeneous and highly scalable log management with intuitive, actionable dashboards, sophisticated analytics and broad third-party extensibility. It provides deep operational visibility and faster troubleshooting across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

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Technical Sales 201 – What’s New in vROPs 6.5 [youtube.com]

Technical Sales 201 – What’s New in vROPs 6.5

In this enablement session, I provide a Technical Sales 201 level overview of the recent release of vRealize Operations Manager (vROPs) 6.5.

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New Features Coming to vSphere with Operations Management [VMware vSphere Blog]

New Features Coming to vSphere with Operations…

This has been a big month for releases, especially for vSphere with Operations Management! Earlier this month, both vRealize Operations (vR Ops) and vRealize Log Insight released updates. Then, just this week, vSphere 6.5.0b was released.

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3 Ways to Optimize SAP Performance in vROps [VMware Cloud Management Blog]

3 Ways to Optimize SAP Performance in vROps

Nearly every component of the IT stack contributes to application performance, which can make it challenging to identify what may be causing issues when they arise. For many organizations, a lack of visibility can lead to mean-time-to-innocence hunts — wasting time and creating alert storms that drain the productivity of your teams.

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Log Insight and vSphere Stretched Clusters [sflanders.net]

Log Insight and vSphere Stretched Clusters

The question of whether Log Insight supports deployment on vSphere stretched clusters has come up multiple times in the last few months. As such, I figured I would cover it in this post. Read on to learn more!

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vROps – A Methodology for Authoring Dashboards [VMware Cloud Management Blog]

vROps – A Methodology for Authoring Dashboards

vRealize Operations Manager, as we know it today, comes packed with a vast array of built-in content. We have dashboards, views, reports, alerts, and a myriad of other content to help us paint the right picture for different types of users. Of this content, the most flexible, but daunting, can be dashboards. While it is admittingly easy to drag and drop some pictures of widgets on to a dashboards, a common pitfall is not fully understanding the capabilities of widgets and how to arrange them in to the most efficient workflows. In this article, we’re going to discuss some methodologies on defining workflows, choosing widgets and building interactions to create the most effective dashboards.

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