vROps Webinar 2016 : Part 3 – Capacity Planning De-Mystified!

As promised, I am posting the recording for the 3rd installment of vROps Webinar Series 2016. We successfully delivered the session on vROps Capacity Planning with some demo scenarios which might help you define your capacity monitoring goals. Session Details:- Capacity Planning Demystified! Capacity Planning is an integral part of vRealize Operations Manager and throughContinue reading “vROps Webinar 2016 : Part 3 – Capacity Planning De-Mystified!”

vROps Webinar 2016 – Announcing Part 3 : Capacity Planning De-Mystified!

vROps Webinar Series 2016 is back and as promised during the last session we will now deep-dive into vRealize Operations Manager Policies, specifically around the area of Capacity Planning. Capacity Planning Demystified! Capacity Planning is an integral part of vRealize Operations Manager and through this session we want to de-mystify the concepts of Capacity Planning in vROpsContinue reading “vROps Webinar 2016 – Announcing Part 3 : Capacity Planning De-Mystified!”

vROps Webinar Series Episodes

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #454545} vROps Webinar Series 2017 Here are the episodes of vROps Webinar Series 2017: vROps Webinar 2017 – Part 4 – Optimizing Workload Performance Using Automation vROps Webinar Series 2017 – Part 3 – What’s New with vROps 6.6. vROps Webinar Series 2017 – PartContinue reading “vROps Webinar Series Episodes”

An Overview of Blue Medora’s “Oracle on VMware” Solutions!

Guest Post By: Kyle Wassink, Blue Medora More and more of Blue Medora’s customers are choosing to run their Oracle workloads on VMware. This choice comes with spectacular benefits such as server consolidation and licensing savings, as well as new challenges. One of the biggest challenges is effectively monitoring the Oracle workloads in context ofContinue reading “An Overview of Blue Medora’s “Oracle on VMware” Solutions!”

vROps Backup – DO NOT quiese the nodes

vRealize operations manager is quickly becoming the backbone of your SDDC and it is important that you always have a sound backup methodology for vROps to ensure that you can recover from a disaster. The backup of vRealize Operations Manager cannot be done through a regular agent based backup. VMware supports only a specific wayContinue reading “vROps Backup – DO NOT quiese the nodes”

Thoughts & Experience around Expanding vROps Clusters

Expanding your existing vRealize Operations Manager Clusters is an activity which you would definitely come across if you have started to operationalize your vRealize Operations Manager investments in your organizations. Photo Credit – http://www.expansionexperts.com In other words, the more you start using the product, the more you want to do with it. Mostly people size theContinue reading “Thoughts & Experience around Expanding vROps Clusters”

Singapore VMUG : Come join the vParty!

Glad to share that I will be attending Singapore VMUG on Tuesday, March 1st 2016 and would also co-deliver a session with my partner in crime Mr. Rahabok. We decided that we will share some of the goodness of our VMworld Session – MGT4973 – Mastering Performance Monitoring and Capacity Planning with the user group in Singapore. Continue reading “Singapore VMUG : Come join the vParty!”

Session Timeout for vRealize Operations NOC Dashboard!

Photo Credit – http://indianatelephonenetwork.com/support/network-outages/  Just wanted to share something which I recently learnt about the vROps dashboards and session timeouts for a user. We all know that with vRealize Operations Manager you can use the session timeout feature under Administration -> Global Settings, to control the session timeouts for users. While the default option for thisContinue reading “Session Timeout for vRealize Operations NOC Dashboard!”

vROps Webinar 2016 : Part 2 : Understanding vROps Policies

I am glad to share that the vROps Webinar Series took a step ahead towards the year long commitment of providing quality content on vRealize Operations Manager. We successfully delivered the most awaited session on vROps Policies. Please remember that this is an introductory session to policies and we intend to go deeper into policiesContinue reading “vROps Webinar 2016 : Part 2 : Understanding vROps Policies”

Reset out-of-the-box content during vROps upgrade!

VMware recently release vRealize Operations Manager 6.2 (now 6.2a with the recent patch). If you are on a version of vROps 6.x or above and trying to upgrade to the 6.1 or 6.2, you will get an option during upgrade to reset out-of-the-box content when you install the software update. Here is how the setting would lookContinue reading “Reset out-of-the-box content during vROps upgrade!”