John Dias is a Senior Technical Marketing Architect specializing in Cloud Management solutions. John is a veteran IT professional with over 22 years of experience, most of that having been on the customer side running data center operations, data storage, virtual infrastructure and Unix environments for a major financial institution. In his spare time, he enjoys astrophotography, and repairing and refurbishing vintage computers.

Recent Posts

What’s New in vRealize Operations 7.5? A Technical Overview, Part 2

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Welcome back to this multi-part blog series on vRealize Operations 7.5, where I will provide a technical overview of all the new and improved features in this release.  The first part covered improvements to Workload Optimization, with new vSAN capability and better visibility into Business Intent policy violations and host group workload. In this second Read more...

Introducing the vRealize Operations Sizing Tool

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Whether you are deploying vRealize Operations for the first time or you have a current cluster and want to validate your cluster node size and number of nodes you will want to use the vRealize Operations Sizing Tool which was published late last year in conjunction with vRealize Operations 7.0.  This simple, easy-to-use tool provides Read more...

Extracting Data From vRealize Operations with the REST APIs

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A frequent request from the field and VMware customers is, “How can I get data out of vROps using the REST APIs?”  The reasons for this vary, but typically there is a desire to incorporate the metrics and properties from vROps with another data set or monitoring tool.  In this blog post, I’ll give you Read more...

Using Host Rules with Business Intent in vRealize Operations 7.0

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This blog post originally appeared on the blog of Brett Johnson, a Senior Consultant with VMware.  It is re-posted here with Brett’s permission.  You can follow Brett on Twitter @BrettJohnson008. vROPS 7.0 launched with a feature called Business Intent which controls workload placement based on vSphere tags Announcement. This feature tackles several use cases one being Read more...

Reboot Guest OS from vROps? vRO MP 2.0 Can Do That!

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Today, I saw a message from one of our outstanding Technical Account Managers at VMware, @stevetilkens.  Steve wanted to know if there was a vRealize Operations action for restarting a guest OS on a monitored virtual machine.  So, I thought I would show everyone how easy this is with the Management Pack for vRealize Orchestrator.  Read more...

Full Visibility with the Management Pack for Storage Devices 7.0

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Last week we released a new version of the popular vRealize Operations Management Pack for Storage Devices which allows you to monitor your third-party storage devices and Fibre Channel network.  This provides full visibility to the storage tier for virtual machine and application performance and availability monitoring.  If you are familiar with previous versions of Read more...

The Self-Healing Datacenter 2.0

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About 18 months ago, I wrote a series of blog posts that many customers used to enable automation for self-healing IT operations.  At the time, it was a good choice if you really wanted to integrate your custom vRealize Orchestrator workflows with vRealize Operations alerts.  I am happy to report, with the release of the Read more...