In my previous blog post “Adding Custom Metrics and Properties to vRealize Operations Objects with the REST API” I have described how to add additional metrics and properties to existing objects in vRealize Operations using the REST API and Postman. But what if you would like to use the outstanding vRealize Operations engine to manage Read more...
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...
This blog post was written by Thomas Kopton: Thomas Kopton is a Senior Consultant at VMware PSO based in CEMEA specializing in SDDC Management solutions like vRealize Operations, Log Insight, Network Insight etc. He has been with VMware since 2016 and worked in the IT industry for over 20 years. Even if vRealize Operations, together with Read more...
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...
VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) 7.0 uses Badges as a way to evaluate objects. The three major badges it uses are Health, Risk, and Efficiency. As I’ve written previously, every VMware administrator needs to understand what comprises these badges, and how they are applied to the objects discovered within your stack. Badges summarize a lot of Read more...
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...
While Blue Medora provides monitoring data integrations for traditional data center compute platforms from Cisco, Dell EMC, HPE, and Lenovo, we have been expanding our footprint into converged and hyper-converged infrastructures (HCI). Recently we added support for NetApp HCI & SolidFire, including a new management pack for the VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) monitoring platform. Despite Read more...
It’s a proud moment to say that vRSLCM is now a well-known VMware’s product providing Life Cycle Management support for vRealize Suite of products including ‘vRealize Network Insight’ as of now. vRSLCM currently provides support for below listed products: vRealize Automation vRealize Operations Managers vRealize Log Insight vRealize Business for Cloud vRealize Network Insight Once Read more...
So you’ve decided that you want to develop and deploy your applications cheaper and faster. I get it…there are numerous benefits to PaaS that allow your developers to quickly write and change modern applications, deploy them “as code”, all while maintaining the flexibility to operate infrastructure either on-prem or in the cloud. Pivotal Cloud Foundry Read more...
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...
