Copy and paste widgets from your favorite dashboards in vRealize Operations

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”

vROps is EASY!!!

While that sounds like a whacky title.. You will only believe when you see the video I am about to share… Full credit of this video goes to Matt Bradford who blogs at http://www.vmspot.com/ . He has clearly knocked it out of the park to show you how easy it is to make vRealize Operations Dashboards and howContinue reading “vROps is EASY!!!”

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”

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”

The return of the One Click Cluster Capacity Dashboard on vROps 6.0

Let me begin this post by thanking all the readers of vXpress who voted this year during the TopvBlog2015 survey. I am happy to share that your support and encouragement has helped vXpress retain a spot in the Top 50 Virtualization blogs in the year 2015 as well by being ranked as number 38 inContinue reading “The return of the One Click Cluster Capacity Dashboard on vROps 6.0”

Catching up with World Cup Cricket 2015 using vRealize Operations Manager 6.0

This post was first published on VMware Management Blog by me as a contributor to that blog. Posting it here for my readers as well! This post is to add a little FUN to how we use the VMware Management solutions in our day to day lives in our workplaces. We know the power of vRealizeContinue reading “Catching up with World Cup Cricket 2015 using vRealize Operations Manager 6.0”

Creating a vROps Capacity Dashboard for your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure!

As a part of the GUEST BLOGGERS initiative on vXpress, here is the second post by Anand Vaneswaran. In this article he is giving us a dope on using vRealize Custom Dashboards to showcase the Capacity of Virtual Desktops managed by Horizon View and running on the vSphere platform. With this post, he has used the concept of capacity managementContinue reading “Creating a vROps Capacity Dashboard for your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure!”

Creating a One Click Datacenter Capacity & Cluster Performance Dashboard!

I have got a number of requests in the past to modify the famous Cluster Capacity Dashboard. Today I have modified it to create a similar dashboard which shows the capacity from a Datacenter Point of View. So if you have a large install base of vCenter Operations Manager with multiple Datacenters, you can useContinue reading “Creating a One Click Datacenter Capacity & Cluster Performance Dashboard!”

Recover Deleted Custom Dashboards from vCenter Operations Manager

Some time back, I wrote an article highlighting the custom dashboards which are available out of the box with the release of vCenter Operations Manager 5.7. I have been asked questions about, how these dashboards can be recovered in case someone deletes them accidentally.  In reality these dashboards are a bunch of XML files whichContinue reading “Recover Deleted Custom Dashboards from vCenter Operations Manager”

Building a VDI Custom Dashboard and Generic Scoreboard: Step-by-Step!

A few days back I added a new section to my blog which would bring new bloggers on-board as guest bloggers on vXpress. Today I am proud and happy to share the first post by a Guest Blogger on one of my favorite topic – “No prize for guessing: vCenter Operations Manager” . This marathonContinue reading “Building a VDI Custom Dashboard and Generic Scoreboard: Step-by-Step!”