This is a season of Multi-Part Series on vXpress, especially around vCenter Operations Manager and Architecting vSphere. Sometimes this can mean that you need to wait for the next post in the series & I apologize for that. Since blogging is not a part of my Job, it becomes difficult sometimes to get all theContinue reading “Part 1 – vCOps Extensions – Managing Operations Beyond Virtual Infrastructure”
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vCenter Operations Manager 5.x – FAQ Repository!
With the amount of work I have been doing on vCOps, I do get a number of questions on various platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and on my posts around various things which people want to know. Although a great solution, it was not marketed the way it should have been and hence theContinue reading “vCenter Operations Manager 5.x – FAQ Repository!”
VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.x- Back to Basics!
Last month I started a series on vCenter Operations Manager Back to Basics. This series has multiple articles which can help you deploy vCOps from scratch and then configure it to ensure that you can get the best results out of your deployment. I will update this page regularly as I do more parts inContinue reading “VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.x- Back to Basics!”
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!”
Moving to a New Role: A New Challenge – A New Opportunity!
I wanted to share the good news with all the readers of vXpress, my friends & colleagues across the globe about a change in my professional career which I think would be one of the most important step forward for the next decade of my career. It is time to unlock some new ideas andContinue reading “Moving to a New Role: A New Challenge – A New Opportunity!”
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!”
Two Big Results Today – Stepped into Fatherhood & Jumped into TOP 30 of TOP vBLOG 2014
Their are only a few dates which are close to my heart & 27th March 2014 has definitely taken the Top Spot in the list. It’s 2 in the night and I have already changed 5 diapers in the past 3 hours. The Demand in terms of vCOps in way higher than the allocation ;-).Continue reading “Two Big Results Today – Stepped into Fatherhood & Jumped into TOP 30 of TOP vBLOG 2014”
Part 8 – Setting up vCOps Data Retention Policy
In the last post we looked at setting up the advanced parameters for session timeout on Custom & vSphere User Interfaces. Let us look at another advanced setting which requires a tweak in most of the cases. In this post of this series, I will post the steps you need to follow in order toContinue reading “Part 8 – Setting up vCOps Data Retention Policy”
Part 7 – Changing/Disabling the vCOps User Interface Timeout Values!
Once you are done with the basic Admin UI configuration as shown in the last article you would want to move on to certain advanced settings which would require you to access the vCOps VMs using an SSH client such as Putty. In this post we will look at changing or disabling the timeout values ofContinue reading “Part 7 – Changing/Disabling the vCOps User Interface Timeout Values!”
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