Brandon Gordon, Author at VMware Cloud Management

ROI Dashboard for vRealize Operations 8.1 and vRealize Operations Cloud

Brandon Gordon posted May 21, 2020

On a recent call with a customer, I was asked for help showing the value of vRealize Operations from a financial perspective. Cost management has been a native feature within vRealize Operations since the 6.7 release, but the costs needed to show the Return on Investment (ROI) are available in multiple locations. Potential cost savings Read more...

VM Pricing with vRealize Automation 8.1 and vRealize Operations 8.1

Brandon Gordon posted April 14, 2020

The financial aspect of deploying VMs is becoming more critical as usage of cloud increases. Showing the price of VMs to end users can help influence their behavior when requesting new VMs and maintaining their existing VMs. With the release of vRealize Automation 8.1 and vRealize Operations 8.1, defining the prices of your VMs is Read more...

Announcing General Availability of vRealize Operations 8.1

Brandon Gordon posted April 14, 2020

Today marks major milestone, the general availability of vRealize Operations 8.1. Every release gets better and better, and this release won’t let you down. There are so many features in this release, that I would like give you some highlights of a few of them. Support for vSphere 7.0 with Kubernetes I’m sure you’ve heard Read more...

Rightsizing VMs with vRealize Operations

Brandon Gordon posted January 15, 2020

Rightsizing VMs is critical to get the best performance of your vSphere infrastructure and your VMs. Rampant oversizing of VMs can cause contention at the host or cluster level, which manifest as CPU ready, CPU co-stop, VM swap, etc. Undersized VMs can cause contention inside the guest OS, which manifest as CPU queuing, memory paging, Read more...

Managing VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Operations

Brandon Gordon posted January 9, 2020

So, you’re thinking about leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS (or maybe you’re already there). You might be retiring old HW in your datacenter, maybe expanding your dev-ops needs, or even hosting some of your business critical apps. Regardless of your reason to adopt a hybrid cloud, you’re starting to wonder how you are going to Read more...

What-If Analysis with vRealize Operations 8.0

Brandon Gordon posted October 30, 2019

There is more to capacity management for vSphere environments than looking at what’s currently running in your clusters. Clusters are always in flux with VMs and hosts being added and removed. There can be situations that require looking at migrating workloads to other datacenters or the public cloud. If you’ve run into any of these Read more...

What’s New in vRealize Operations 8.0?

Brandon Gordon posted October 17, 2019

Today marks general availability of vRealize Operations 8.0. I’m excited to tell you about the amazing features available in this release. Grab a coffee or tea and sit back because this is another huge release with lots of exciting new features. Improved Initial Onboarding To start things off, we’ve improved initial onboarding. For new deployments, Read more...

vRealize Operations REST API: Create Application and Application Tier Objects

Brandon Gordon posted June 20, 2019

I’ve been working with my colleague John Dias on a demo that involves deploying VMs via Cloud Automation Services and automatically configuring monitoring them with vRealize Operations. We needed a way to create Application and Application Tier objects during the provisioning process. Looking through the REST API documentation, there are no API calls specifically for Read more...

Allocation Model for Capacity Management in vRealize Operations 7.5

Brandon Gordon posted May 28, 2019

Capacity management is a critical aspect of managing vSphere clusters. Capacity management goals can vary depending on the type of VMs running in the cluster or based on business requirements. Failure to manage capacity based on business goals can lead to capacity shortfalls or performance problems. In vRealize Operations 6.7 and 7.0, there was only Read more...

Enhancements to Virtual Machine Memory Metrics in vRealize Operations

Brandon Gordon posted January 4, 2019

Memory metrics for Virtual Machines have changed in recent releases of vRealize Operations to make managing your SDDC better. In this blog, I will explain these changes to help you understand how they help you. To start things off, let’s define a couple of important metrics. Active Memory By definition, Active Memory is the Read more...

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