vRealize Operations Manager Management Pack Compatibility Guide

With vRealize Operations slowly becoming the backbone of your software defined datacenter, it is crucial to keep an eye on the latest releases of vROps from VMware. Last week, VMware release d vRealize Operations 6.2 with some great new features. I will not run through the new enhancements as this has already been covered inContinue reading “vRealize Operations Manager Management Pack Compatibility Guide”

vROps Webinar 2016 – Announcing Part 2 : Understanding Policies.

vROps Webinar Series 2016 is back and as promised during the last session we would now take you to the world of vRealize Operations Policies.  What is a Policy?? “A policy is a deliberate system of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent, and is implemented as a procedure or protocol” Continue reading “vROps Webinar 2016 – Announcing Part 2 : Understanding Policies.”

vROps Webinar 2016 : Part 1 : Building Self-Healing Environments with vROps

A couple of weeks back I announced the arrival of the vROps Webinar 2016 Series and I am glad to share that we have successfully delivered the first session of this year long series on Friday, 22nd Jan. A special thanks to Simon Eady, who delivered a power packed session on Building Self-Healing environments usingContinue reading “vROps Webinar 2016 : Part 1 : Building Self-Healing Environments with vROps”

Announcement : Welcome 2016 with a vROps Webinar Series

Let me begin with wishing you and your loved ones a Happy and a Prosperous 2016. The year 2015 has been great fun around the blogging arena, however a constant feedback which I have received from my readers has been around learning more about vRealize Operations Manager. While readers enjoy the benefit of replicating theContinue reading “Announcement : Welcome 2016 with a vROps Webinar Series”

The Secret Sauce to be a VMware Ninja!

This is a quick post to share the resources from where I learn about vRealize Operations Manager. In the past few months, I have received a number of questions around Capacity Management, Alerts, Projects etc. I must say that VMware Technical Marketing has done a great job to document all this in a form ofContinue reading “The Secret Sauce to be a VMware Ninja!”

vCenter / vRealize Operations Manager Dashboard Repository

This page is a repository of the all the vCenter Operations Manager and vRealize Operations Manager Dashboards. I will continue to add new dashboards to this page from myself and other community members. Feel free to use any of the dashboards in your environment and leave a comment below with your feedback: **************************************************************************************************************************************** NSX LOAD-BALANCERContinue reading “vCenter / vRealize Operations Manager Dashboard Repository”

The Chicken who went to Chilie!

Yeah..this one is not about vROps or VMware, it’s not about VCDX or vExpert… It’s about food which is my second love (after my family) 🙂 and I often love to cook for my loved ones. This time it is the story of the Chilie Chicken which I made last weekend for my wife. IContinue reading “The Chicken who went to Chilie!”

Creating a Capacity & Performance Management Dashboard in vRealize Operations 6.x

A few days back I tweeted about a hybrid dashboard which would help you gauge the Capacity & Measure the performance of your virtual infrastructure from a single pane. I call it the Capacity & Performance Management Dashboard which has been jointly built by Iwan Rahabok & myself.  In my last post I wrote aboutContinue reading “Creating a Capacity & Performance Management Dashboard in vRealize Operations 6.x”

Importing / Exporting Reports and Views in vRealize Operations Manager

This one would be quick note to tell you about the feature of Exporting and Importing Reports in vRealize Operations. In one of my previous articles, I wrote about creating a report out of a dashboard. Here is the link to that article.  We all know that with Custom Reports, you can also pull inContinue reading “Importing / Exporting Reports and Views in vRealize Operations Manager”

Using a Help Desk Dashboard to Simplify Operations With vRealize Operations Manager!

This post is a resultant of our VMworld 2015 content which we ( me and Iwan Rahabok) have been brewing since the mid of this year. Without taking any credit, I must say that all the content which we presented in various events such as architect bootcamps, VMworld and recently at the VMware APJ TechContinue reading “Using a Help Desk Dashboard to Simplify Operations With vRealize Operations Manager!”