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 6.7 REST APIs

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Calling all coders, scripters and automation nerds!  With the release of vRealize Operations 6.7 we have quite a few updates to the REST APIs.  The full list is attached at the bottom of this post, but I wanted to call out a few that are notable and helpful.  I get questions from customers, partners and Read more...
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Introducing vRealize Technical Guides

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Quick!  Bookmark this link – you’ll thank me later.  What did you just bookmark?  Only the best new repository for technical information on vRealize Operations.  The vRealize Technical Guides provide videos, demos and more for you to learn about and get the most out of vRealize Operations 6.7 whether you are a new customer, considering Read more...

VMware Application Proxy: Manage Your Wavefront Telegraf Agents with vRealize Operations 6.7

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In his blog post last week, Henry Guo introduced a new integration between Wavefront and vRealize Operations 6.7, to extend application monitoring with Wavefront to provide IT control and developer agility. This is a fantastic new capability that allows customers using vRealize Operations 6.7 to begin exploring Wavefront and offer consistent monitoring tools for DevOps Read more...

Dec 13th: Beyond the Basics – vRealize Operations Advanced and Enterprise Features

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It is hard to argue that vRealize Operations is the best solution for managing your private cloud running on VMware vSphere.  Register and attend this free Getting More out of VMware webcast to learn more about how vRealize Operations provides rich and extended visibility and control for customers’ cloud management needs. vRealize Operations is the domain expert for Read more...
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Simplified Management of VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Operations

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VMware Cloud on AWS is going to change how you think about your infrastructure.  This allows you to simply “rent” your own ready-to-go VMware Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) giving you the flexibility your business needs.  Whether it’s quickly adding new capacity to cover a new project or retiring old cluster hardware and moving those workloads Read more...
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August 16th Webinar: Upgrading to vRealize Operations 6.6

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Are you ready to upgrade to vRealize Operations 6.6? There is a lot of excitement around the new HTML5 interface, Workload Placement improvements, new dashboard content, integration with Log Insight and vRealize Business for Cloud and much more.  vRealize Operations 6.6 is one of our biggest and most exciting upgrades and you do not want Read more...

vSAN Gets an Upgrade to First Class

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With the release of vRealize Operations 6.6 I am excited to announce that customers can now manage their vSAN deployments with native integration.  No need to install a management pack; just set up your vSAN adapter instances and vRealize Operations will do the rest.  As a critical component of the VMware Software Defined Data Center Read more...

vRealize Operations 6.6 Dashboard Palooza

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Have you seen vRealize Operations 6.6 yet?  Customers are really excited about the new HTML5 product UI, Workload Balance and overall improved ease-of-use with this release.  Speaking of “ease-of-use” our product team really nailed it with new and improved dashboard content.  We have some other blogs coming out that go a bit deeper on those Read more...