One of the main drivers of a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) is to have the different solutions work together seamlessly. That means the business, automation, compliance, operations, optimization, capacity, etc… All these components need to work to provide you with a unified feel and flow. Without that its really not much of a CMP… its Read more...
VMware and IBM are very excited to announce the general availability of VMware vRealize Operations for Power, a new VMware solution made possible through a strategic collaboration with IBM and Blue Medora. In this solution, vRealize Operations is able to manage Power servers by leveraging Blue Medora management packs to help produce a single pane Read more...
VMware is announcing the release of VMware vCloud Suite 2018 Platinum. The new bundle is planned to be available alongside the existing vCloud Suite 2018. vCloud Suite brings together VMware vSphere, the world’s leading compute virtualization platform and the industry-leading VMware vRealize Suite cloud management platform. While vCloud Suite 2018 includes vRealize Suite and vSphere Read more...
VMworld Barcelona is less than a week away, get excited! With the latest release of vRealize Operations, there are many sessions that amplify the message of Self-Driving Operations. See below some sessions that we recommend you attend to learn more! Recommended Self-Driving Operations Sessions: Self-Driving Operations: What’s New with vRealize Operations – MGT1201BE Date: Read more...
Written by Steven Miller, DevOps Engineer at Blue Medora Blue Medora provides some of the best in breed monitoring integrations within VMware vRealize® Operations™ (vROps). Sometimes configuring those integrations, especially for our largest customers, is tedious. In order to help our customers, and the overall vROps ecosystem, we are proud to introduce vROpsCLI, a freely Read more...
After publishing over 50 blog posts on VMware vRealize Operations Manager here on the VMware Cloud Management blog and after working with the solution for quite a few years, I decided to consolidate that knowledge into a book. My hope is that, out of this book, many more IT Professionals can learn the value of Read more...
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...
So far, there has been a lot of excitement over vRealize Operations 7.0 and there is a lot to be excited about! Dashboard sharing, a new dashboard editor, host-based placement, new “What-if” scenarios, vRealize Orchestrator MP 2.0 and more. In this blog post I want to call out some improvements and additions to vRealize Operations Read more...
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...
With the release of VMware vRealize® Operations™ 7.0 we are gifted many new features to improve Self-Driving Operations. While many of these additions move the product into the future, none of these features gets me excited as the dashboard building and management improvements in version 7.0. Let me dive into these feature improvements and share Read more...
