Matt Bradford

Matt Bradford is a Senior VMware Healthcare Technical Account Manager based in New England. He is heavily involved in the VMware community as a three year VMware vExpert and a member of the Boston VMUG and Connecticut VMUG Steering Committees. Be sure to check out Matt’s personal blog at www.VMSpot.com and say hi to him on Twitter @VMSpot.

Recent Posts

Sending AWS CloudWatch Logs to VMware Log Intelligence

posted

Sending AWS CloudWatch Logs to VMware Log Intelligence   This article was written by Senior Technical Account Manager, Nico Guerrera. See his full bio at the bottom of this article. As more and more customers move workloads to the cloud, we at VMware want to make sure that they can leverage their investment in our Read more...

ServiceNow Notifications with vRealize Operations 7.5

posted

vRealize Operations is a great tool for monitoring your infrastructure and applications. With its included alerting capabilities, you’ll know right away when things go wrong, when you’re running low on capacity, or if you’re out of compliance, just to name a few. Management Packs are a great way to easily expand your alerting capabilities to Read more...
A screenshot of a cell phone Description automatically generated

Metric Correlation with vRealize Operations

posted

vRealize Operations is a tool of many talents. It keeps an ever-vigilant watch over the performance and capacity of your VMware SDDC. Self-driving operations means that you can focus on other tasks while vRealize Operations takes care of the routine. Workloads can be balanced to avoid capacity constraints and performance bottlenecks. Configuration drifts can be Read more...

What’s New in vRealize Log Insight 4.8

posted

vRealize Log Insight is VMware’s log analytics tool which allows IT administrators to rapidly troubleshoot their applications and infrastructure. Intuitive search capabilities combined with dashboards makes data extraction easier and dare I say, a little fun! vRealize Log Insight is about to celebrate its sixth birthday since version 1.0 went GA on July 9th 2013. Read more...

vRealize Operations Custom Compliance Templates

posted

Keeping your corporate data secure is critical to any business. Personal information such as social security numbers, healthcare records, and credit cards are big business for thieves who sell this information on the black market. Healthcare, banking, and retail industries are high-value targets, but the truth is that any business is at risk. Just think Read more...

Forwarding Kubernetes Logs to vRealize Log Insight via Fluentd

posted

Credit to NICO GUERRERA for this blog post (Bio Below)!   As we all know, Kubernetes and container technologies are currently exploding in adoption in data centers and public clouds around the world. With such aggressive growth of this new technology, we need to make sure we properly operationalize it to ensure a successful deployment. A Read more...

VMworld 2017 – The Ops Perspective Part 3

posted

  That’s a wrap! VMworld US 2017 is officially over. It’s been a very exciting week with all the great announcements such as the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud Services, PKS, and App Defense to name just a few!! We’ve heard about the future of operations management and the present with cool Read more...

VMworld 2017 – The Ops Perspective Part 2

posted

    Greetings from sunny Las Vegas! This is the second day of announcements at VMworld 2017 and there’s lots more great operations tech to talk about! AI of Things. In yesterday’s post, we talked about VMware’s exploration of AI, and today AI was a focal point for Pat Gelsinger and Michael Dell’s Q&A keynote Read more...

VMworld 2017 – The Ops Perspective Part 1

posted

This article contains product features that are currently under development. This overview of new technology represents no commitment from VMware to deliver these features in any generally available product. Features are subject to change, and must not be included in contracts, purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind. Technical feasibility and market demand will Read more...

Improving workload performance with DRS and vROps 6.6

posted

The DRS Dilemma. vSphere’s Distributed resource scheduler has long been a part of our data centers, keeping an ever vigilant watch over our hosts and their workloads. Distributed resource scheduler, or DRS for short, is responsible for choosing the best host for each of our virtual machines to run on. When you deploy a new Read more...