Aligning vRealize Operations with Business Outcomes – vROps White Paper [VMware Cloud Management Blog]
VMware just published my vROps White Paper titled “Aligning vRealize Operations with Business Outcomes” on the VMware Tech Papers site. In particular, this white paper explores a common theme among many VMware customers.
Using End Point Operations agent with vRealize Operations Manager [vxpresss.blogspot.com]
End Point Operations as a feature of vRealize Operations Manager is an area where I get a lot of questions. During a workshop with a customer today, I was asked about a number of things which rang a bell in my head. I spent some time with the customer to de-mystify a lot of apprehensions around EPOps and the conversation ended into a meaningful action plan.
vRealize Network Insight 3.3 Evolves Security and Network Management for the Software Defined Data Center
vRealize Network Insight is rapidly becoming the management platform of choice for Software Defined Data Center customers looking to manage their virtual and physical network infrastructure and implement micro segmentation. vRealize Network Insight 3.3 continues to drive industry leadership in micro segmentation planning and network troubleshooting by delivering-
Log Insight: Double or Triple Counted ESXi Hosts [sflanders.net]
As I covered in the past, Log can be licensed per OSI or CPU. If you are using OSI licensing for ESXi then you may notice the same hosts are counted more than once. In this post, I will cover how to fix this issue. Read on to learn more!
vRealize Operations is easy – Creating a custom vROps dashboard [VMware Cloud Management Blog]
vRealize Operations Manager is a stand-out product for monitoring your application, virtual, and physical infrastructure. vROps comes pre-loaded with some amazing dashboards to get you going on day one. Additional management packs available in the VMware Solution Exchange and third parties like Blue Medora can also be easily installed to extend the capabilities of vROps. If you own the advanced or enterprise editions of vRealize Operations Manager, you can even create custom vROps dashboards. Best of all, it is incredibly easy!
VMware vRealize Network Insight 3.3 Feature Walkthrough [dabcc.com]
vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) continues to enhance the visibility and management of overlay and underlay networks. With the launch of version 3.3, a number of new features were introduced. In this blog post, I will cover four of the new features, including new event management options, user-defined event enhancements, improved NAT visibility, and new IP address space support.
Video – vRNI pre-assessment installation [ntpro.nl]
Walkthrough of installation of vRealize Network Insight version 3.2
Log Insight upgrade path — via Michael Ryom
Log Insight 4.3 has just been released. I guess it is a good time to talk about upgrading and what path to follow and what is the Log Insight upgrade path. I am only gonna focus on Log Insight 3.x or newer. Basically if you are not running Log Insight 3.x or newer, you really should upgrade asap. There is now reason to wait any longer. You are just making it worse by waiting!
What Is vRealize Network Insight? Interview with Shobhana Viswanathan (@shobhanav) — via VMware Cloud Mgmnt Blog
Recently I was honored to be invited to VMware’s headquarters to conduct a series of video interviews. One of those interviews was with Shobhana Viswanathan, Sr. Product Line Marketing Manager in VMware’s Cloud Management Business Unit. In the interview, we talked about VMware’s new vRealize Network Insight.
vRops upgrade path — via Michael Ryom
This is just a quick guide to the vRops upgrade path. I work a lot with vRops in different aspects. As of late I have been running in to a few environments which has not kept up with vRops’s release cycle. Needles to say vRops has come a long way from 5.8 or 6.0. Last week vRops 6.5 was release and once every quarter(or so) a new release will come out. In that sense, it is good to know how to upgrade from one release of vRops to the next or more so to the latest.
Log Insight 4.3: UI Enhancements — via SFlanders.net
In Log Insight 4.3, some additional UI enhancements have been made. In this post, I would like to cover the functionality they add. Read on to learn more!
vRealize Network Insight 3.3 Feature Walkthrough — via VMware Cloud Mgmnt Blog
vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) continues to enhance the visibility and management of overlay and underlay networks. With the launch of version 3.3, a number of new features were introduced. In this blog post, I will cover four of the new features, including new event management options, user-defined event enhancements, improved NAT visibility, and new IP address space support.
Learn all about vRealize Log Insight in under 90 minutes — via Anything Virtual and Cloudy
This post is aimed towards anyone who does a lot of Log Analysis. In this post I showcased the capabilities of VMware vRealize Log Insight. This will enable you to confidently utilise this tool to not only analyse the diverse logs that you can think of but also visualise the patterns and much more. So, if you are a hands on person who loves to do root cause analysis, or want to solve that nagging performance issue, then this post is for you.
What’s new in vRealize Log Insight 4.3: An in-depth review — via VMware Cloud Mgmnt Blog
We’re pleased to announce the new release of vRealize Log Insight 4.3. You can download the new release here.
vRealize Network Insight 3.3 Evolves Security and Network Management for the Software Defined Data Center
Download vRealize Network Insight 3.3 for Micro-Segmentation Planning, 360 network visibility and troubleshooting and NSX day 2 operations
What’s new in vRealize Log Insight 4.3: An in-depth review — via VMware Cloud Mgmnt Blog
We’re pleased to announce the new release of vRealize Log Insight 4.3. You can download the new release here.
Introduction to VMware vRealize Log Insight
http://bit.ly/2m4EDwO vRealize Log Insight delivers Intelligent Log Management for infrastructure and applications across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Don’t get buried in logs. Chop through them all faster, easier, and smarter with VMware vRealize Log Insight.
What’s New: VMware vRealize Operations 6.5 — via VMware Cloud Mgmnt Blog
VMware’s latest release of vRealize Operations delivers new capabilities to accelerate time to value, manage deployments at scale and collaborate with other data center tools.
vRealize Operations with Embedded Log Insight Integration
http://bit.ly/2m4EDwO Enhance end-to-end operations management by integrating with VMware vRealize Operations. Log Insight comes with built-in knowledge and native support of vSphere and other VMware products, like VMware Horizon® with View, vRealize Operations and vRealize Automation. Log Insight integrates with VMware vRealize Operations™ to bring unstructured and structured data together, for significantly enhanced end-to-end operations management.
vRealize Production Test — via Just Another IT blog
Maintain a healthy environment is part of any IT Administrator’s duty, sometimes is hard to assess several components that might compound a solution, would it not be nice to have a tool that looks at these solutions and provides you a health report ?
