Some time back I tweeted about the value of doing a series around running SAP workloads on VMware and I got a positive response from the community as this is still considered to be a black art. I was lucky to learn from some of the best in the industry and I am referring toContinue reading “SAP on VMware Series : It’s all about the Design!”
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A Sneak Peak of our VMworld Session : MGT 4973 Mastering Performance Monitoring and Capacity Planning.
VMworld 2015 San Francisco Edition is wrapped up and I am back home to the Sunny Singapore. Being in the VMware arena for more than 7 years now, this was only my first VMworld and it was simply amazing. I had withdrawal symptoms once I was back as everything just became slow after those 4Continue reading “A Sneak Peak of our VMworld Session : MGT 4973 Mastering Performance Monitoring and Capacity Planning.”
Monitoring VSAN hardware using vRealize Operations Dashboard.
A few days back I mentioned about the general availability of the vRealize Operations Management pack for vROps in my article here. While building content for VMworld, I tried my hands on the management pack and the metrics which are generated by vROps through this adapter and I was amazed at the amount of detail whichContinue reading “Monitoring VSAN hardware using vRealize Operations Dashboard.”
Guest Post : vRealize Operations Manager Metric Guide!
************Updated with vROps 6.6. Statkeys on 8th January 2018************** I would like to thank my great friend Sunny Dua for giving me the opportunity to be his guest blogger. I came across many requests both internally (field consultants / SE) and externally (Clients) for an extensive list of available metrics of vRealize Operations Manager inContinue reading “Guest Post : vRealize Operations Manager Metric Guide!”
vRealize Production Test v1.2 is Generally Available
VMware just announced the vRealize Production Test version 1.2 today. Now that I have started working on vRealize Automation for my recent cloud automation projects, I really think that vRealize Production Test is a great tool which helps monitor a vRealize Suite Deployment to ensure it is working as designed and implemented. This is a greatContinue reading “vRealize Production Test v1.2 is Generally Available”
Use vRealize Operations to Monitor the Health of VSAN.
During a recent discussion about VMworld with Rawlinson Rivera a.k.a the VSAN Guru, we discussed about how vRealize Operations can be leveraged to monitor the performance and capacity of a VSAN Cluster. We discussed the VSAN Management Pack which was announced in beta earlier this year by VMware and during the discussion we came up with aContinue reading “Use vRealize Operations to Monitor the Health of VSAN.”
Monitor Datastores using the Datastore Usage Dashboard in vROps.
In the past I have done a lot of dashboards which help you gauge the Virtual Machine Capacity within your virtual infrastructure. While those dashboards have great value, I am stating to think of the day to day operational issues which a VI Admin has to face and how can he solve those easily withContinue reading “Monitor Datastores using the Datastore Usage Dashboard in vROps.”
Want to learn about effective Performance & Capacity Management – See us at VMworld!
With VMworld 2015 San Francisco Edition being right around the corner, I thought it was only fair to share the details of the session which me and Iwan Rahabok, (author of VMware vRealize Operations Performance & Capacity Management and indeed a great friend) are presenting during VMworld this year. So far we have decided toContinue reading “Want to learn about effective Performance & Capacity Management – See us at VMworld!”
Alvida India! Ni hao Singapore! – Change is the only thing constant.
If you are wondering that why you do not see any action on vXpress, then you can blame me and no one else. I think I should NOT give you the excuse of the BIG CHANGE which has happened in my life, rather our life (my family). I am happy to share that VMware hasContinue reading “Alvida India! Ni hao Singapore! – Change is the only thing constant.”
Part 15: Re-initiate Monitoring Goals Wizard in vRealize Operations 6.0!
One of the post in my vROps 6.0 Tutorial was about understanding the Monitoring Goals in vROps 6.0. I would highly recommend that you read that post before you read this article as this one is a follow up on that post where at the end I mentioned : “As I mentioned before, any changesContinue reading “Part 15: Re-initiate Monitoring Goals Wizard in vRealize Operations 6.0!”
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