My VMworld 2018 Plan.

As I type this I feel the guilt of not being able to blog for some time now. As most of you know, I have moved into the Product Management role for vRealize Operations, the role has sucked me into the wave of continuos enhancements which we are doing into the product. A tremendous amountContinue reading “My VMworld 2018 Plan.”

Part 1 – Virtualizing SAP – Why, When & How?

Last week I introduced this series about running SAP on VMware and this would be the first part of this series. As a technologist, I believe we should always look at both the sides of the coin while taking decisions and for me the first side is always business. If you are not designing aContinue reading “Part 1 – Virtualizing SAP – Why, When & How?”

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 3: High Availability options with vRealize Operations Manager!

With this part of the series, I will start right from where I left in my last article. In the previous post, I spoke about the architecture of vROps along with the various services and node types which are available with this release. At the end of that article, I spoke about the benefit of havingContinue reading “Part 3: High Availability options with vRealize Operations Manager!”

Part 1 : vCOps 5.x to vROps 6.0 – Intelligent Operations from Apps to Storage!

Back in the month of August, I had an opportunity to get an early interface to vRealize Operations Manager. I jumped out of the seat when I saw the new UI and the amazing features. As much I wanted to share the goodness of this version of vCOps now called vROps, I knew that IContinue reading “Part 1 : vCOps 5.x to vROps 6.0 – Intelligent Operations from Apps to Storage!”

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!”

Part 12 – Deleting Unwanted or Stale Resources from vCenter Operations Manager!

In a number of projects I do, I have always noticed that customers have tried to add their test & development vCenter servers, remote site vCenter servers etc. to their production vCOps instance to see if vCOps is able to monitor all the instances across the sites. This could also happen if you by mistake registerContinue reading “Part 12 – Deleting Unwanted or Stale Resources from vCenter Operations Manager!”

VCDX – It’s a Journey and NOT a Destination!

It is 4th of July and the entire US is enjoying the holiday, while I am just travelling back post some exciting meetings with some of the large customers in India on how they should go about virtualizing their S-A-P infrastructure. The animated discussions on SAP HANA were not only satisfying, but were also fulfillingContinue reading “VCDX – It’s a Journey and NOT a Destination!”

Part 11 – Creating Policies & Configuring Badges in vCenter Operations Manager!

It’s been over a month since I wrote about vCOps. With this article I wanted to start sharing some of the content which I am creating as a video series around configuration of policies in vCenter Operations Manager.  This article and the upcoming articles will all be a part of the Back to Basics seriesContinue reading “Part 11 – Creating Policies & Configuring Badges in vCenter Operations Manager!”