While creating custom dashboards in vRealize Operations, there are times when you want to use the same widget type to be re-used within a dashboard multiple times. At the same time, you might want to re-use some of the widgets which you might like in the out of box dashboards and want to leverage theContinue reading “Copy and paste widgets from your favorite dashboards in vRealize Operations”
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Key vSAN metrics and properties available in vRealize Operations
vSAN day 2 operations are increasingly becoming mainstream in vRealize Operations. With the last release of vRealize Operations 7.5, while vROps added some cool capabilities around workload balancing using workload optimization across multiple vSAN clusters, there were some key metrics which were added to help vSAN administrators. Some of the key metrics that are availableContinue reading “Key vSAN metrics and properties available in vRealize Operations”
Operate VMware Cloud on AWS using vRealize Operations
VMware Cloud on AWS is one of the most talked about innovations and partnerships between VMware and AWS Cloud. With VMware’s SDDC stack fully deployed on AWS, we are delivering on the promise to VMware customers to get the economies of the public cloud without re-writing your existing applications. While talking to most of the customers who are leveragingContinue reading “Operate VMware Cloud on AWS using vRealize Operations”
How to recover vRealize Operations admin account password
With vRealize Operations 7.0, VMware introduced a very simple yet powerful feature which would allow you to reset the built-in admin password of your vRealize Operations instance using recovery settings. I believe this is an extremely useful feature, as I have seen numerous deployments where admins have forgotten the admin password and are forced toContinue reading “How to recover vRealize Operations admin account password”
Reset out of box content post upgrade or install of vRealize Operations
I have been several times about this and hence I thought I would quickly blog about this. With vRealize Operations, the out of the box content owned by VMware usually gets a refresh with each release. If you wish to get the new updated content, then you can leverage the reset out of box optionContinue reading “Reset out of box content post upgrade or install of vRealize Operations”
Automatically place ESXi hosts in maintenance in vROps using properties
This has come up in a number of discussions with customers and a few VMware field employees and hence I wanted to blog about this and use this as a standard answer going foward 🙂 Use Case – An administrator wants to disable alerts on a ESXi host which has been put into maintenance modeContinue reading “Automatically place ESXi hosts in maintenance in vROps using properties”
Ability to transfer the ownership of dashboards with vRealize Operations 7.0
There have been several amazing changes in the realm of dashboard management in vRealize Operations 7.0. The very first one in my list of favorites is the ability to transfer dashboard ownership. In the previous releases of vRealize Operations, one can create and share dashboards, however if a user must be removed from vRealize OperationsContinue reading “Ability to transfer the ownership of dashboards with vRealize Operations 7.0”
Using the compare to previous period option while troubleshooting with vRealize Operations
One of the less known feature of vRealize Operations is to visualize data patterns and compare them against previous time periods of same interval. This feature helps you to easily detect changes in behavior of a workload a.k.a anomalies which could be a result of an event leading to an underlying performance problem. Let’s explainContinue reading “Using the compare to previous period option while troubleshooting with vRealize Operations”
How to embed vRealize Operations dashboards for easy information sharing.
One of the most 💖loved💖feature of vRealize Operations 7.0 has been the new capability of sharing dashboards with URL. The following blogpost explains the options around dashboard sharing. In this post, I wanted to share a quick example on how you can use the embed feature of dashboard sharing. Use Case – The use case is prettyContinue reading “How to embed vRealize Operations dashboards for easy information sharing.”
Exclude filesystem partitions from alerts with vRealize Operations 6.7
With the release of vRealize Operation 6.7, one of the little less known feature around alerting capabilities is the exclusion of filesystem partitions from symptoms. Imagine you have a fleet of Windows of Linux Virtual Machines where you want to monitor the file system usage of the various logical partitions created by the guest operatingContinue reading “Exclude filesystem partitions from alerts with vRealize Operations 6.7”
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