vRealize Operations for Horizon and Published Applications version 6.4 – via VMware EUC Blog
This blog post introduces new support for monitoring VMware App Volumes, View in VMware Horizon 7, and VMware Access Point. The first blog in this series introduced what is new in VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon and Published Applications 6.4.
Log Insight Event Forwarding: Filters Containing Backslashes – via SFlanders.net
I have covered Log Insight event forwarding in the past, but wanted to discuss a potential gotcha when leveraging filters that contain the backslash character. Read on to learn more!
Blogger Talk Show with Steve Flanders on Web Hooks
In this episode of Blogger Talk Show Rebekah Cook talks with Steve Flanders about Web Hooks with vRealize Operations Manager
Log Insight 4.0: Subscribing to Content Pack Alerts – via SFlanders.net
Log Insight has always supported user alerts as well as the ability to enable content pack alerts. Previously, enabled content pack alerts were statically copied into a private user space. In Log Insight 4.0, users have the ability to subscribe to alerts in addition to copying them. Read on to learn more!
vRealize + Webhooks = Infinite Integrations – via VMware Cloud Management Blog
Did you know that both vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Operations Manager support webhooks? Did you know that webhooks allow integrations with any other product that supports an API? In this post, I would like to demonstrate the integrations that exist today. Read on to learn more!
Issues with Mounting a CIFS Share on the vRO Appliance – via Jonathan Medd’s Blog
This article on the vCOTeam site details how to mount a CIFS share on the vRO Appliance so that workflows can write files directly to a Windows File Share rather than using another process to copy the file over there.
vROPS – survive the Kraken – Endpoint Operations Example – Pascal’s Wereld
Guess who’s back, back again… Next to doing End User Computing engagements, where user experience, performance and capacity management is also an integral part, I occasionally am involved in separate operations management engagements. And with VMware often vRealize Operations Manager, or vROPS, shows its face. As some would have noticed I mentioned vROPS in articles on this blog before. This time I am going to dive a little into growing some more tentacles and getting some more insights besides our old vSphere friend.
Custom vRealize Operations Dashboards with Private Access Lists – via VMware Cloud Management
Blue Medora provides hundreds of dashboards out of the box, but there are still times custom dashboards are required. A client recently contacted me wanting to create an executive level dashboard showing his MSSQL environment health. His requirements were to provide very high level health metrics which executives could use. He also wanted them to only have access to that specific dashboard.
New vSAN Management Pack for vRealize Operations – via CormacHogan.com
Last month we announced the release of a new vROps Management Pack specifically for vSAN. Previously the vSAN Management Pack was bundled with the MPSD – Management Pack for Storage Devices. I wrote about this when it entered beta, way back in 2015. Well, for those customers who are only interested in monitoring vSAN, and didn’t want all the other parts of the MPSD, the new vSAN Management Pack is now a stand-alone offering, so no MPSD required.
Remove vRealize LogInsight Password complexity – vRatpack
If you hate to remember complex passwords for your lab environment: so do I. Unfortunately there are applications out there that have no easy way to disable password complexity. VRealize LogInsight is one of them. Here’s how to set the password to whatever you like anyways.
Log Insight 4.0: Clarity Theme – via SFlanders.net
One of the major changes in Log Insight 4.0 is that it now has the VMware Clarity theme applied. Read on to learn more!
David Davis on vRealize Operations – Post #35 – NEW! VMware VSAN Dedicated Management Pack in vROps 6.4
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.
Picking the right design for VMware vRealize Orchestrator – via TechTarget
Choosing the right vRealize Orchestrator design option will determine how effective your environment runs. This chapter excerpt can help you make the right decision.
Capacity planning with vRops – via StarWind Blog
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.
vSphere Optimization Assessment Enhanced Evaluation
Improve your vSphere configuration, performance and capacity utilization with a free vSphere Optimization Assessment enhanced evaluation. Get started now.
Log Insight User Alerts from the VCOPS User – via SFlanders.net
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!
vSphere with Operations Management – Intelligent Workload Placement
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
Log Insight 4.0: New User Alerts Administration – via SFlanders.net
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!
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
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
