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!”

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!”

Part 3 – vCOps Cluster Utilization Dashboard – Bringing it all together!

This is the last and final part of a 3 post series on creating a vCOps Cluster Utilization Dashboard. Before you read or implement this part on your instance of vCenter Operations Manager, you need to ensure that you follow the following articles:- Part 1 – Creating a Cluster Utilization Dashboard in vCOps Custom UserContinue reading “Part 3 – vCOps Cluster Utilization Dashboard – Bringing it all together!”

Part 2 – Creating Supermetrics for Cluster Utilization Dashboard in vCOps!

Continuing from the previous part where I gave you an overview of the Cluster Utilization Dashboard, in this post we will create all the 8 Supermetrics required for this dashboard. We will start with one example, wherein I will give you step by step instructions and you would need to repeat the steps for theContinue reading “Part 2 – Creating Supermetrics for Cluster Utilization Dashboard in vCOps!”

Part 1 – Creating a Cluster Utilization Dashboard in vCOps Custom User Interface!

A few days back I wrote a post on creating a One-Click Cluster Capacity Dashboard which was liked by a number of people in the virtual world. In-fact it was so easy to download and replicate that within a few hours of rolling out that post, I could see a number of people coming backContinue reading “Part 1 – Creating a Cluster Utilization Dashboard in vCOps Custom User Interface!”

Part 2 – Behind the Scenes – vCOps One Click Cluster Capacity Dashboard!

As promised in my last post “Part 1 – Creating One-Click Cluster Capacity Dashboard Using vCOps!”, I am going to share the recipe for preparing dashboards similar to “One Click Cluster Capacity Dashboard” which received a lot of appreciation from the Twitterati. Their were a number of people who deployed the dashboard and within minutes theyContinue reading “Part 2 – Behind the Scenes – vCOps One Click Cluster Capacity Dashboard!”

Part 1 – Creating One-Click Cluster Capacity Dashboard Using vCOps!

Let me start this article by thanking & welcoming  VEEAM as the first official sponsor of vXpress. Their support to the Virtualization community is invaluable. I would request my readers to have to look at their excellent range of products which helps you Protect & Manage your virtual infrastructure in an effective & modern way. You canContinue reading “Part 1 – Creating One-Click Cluster Capacity Dashboard Using vCOps!”