vROps Webinar 2016 – Announcing Part 2 : Understanding Policies.

vROps Webinar Series 2016 is back and as promised during the last session we would now take you to the world of vRealize Operations Policies.  What is a Policy?? “A policy is a deliberate system of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent, and is implemented as a procedure or protocol” Continue reading “vROps Webinar 2016 – Announcing Part 2 : Understanding Policies.”

vROps Webinar 2016 : Part 1 : Building Self-Healing Environments with vROps

A couple of weeks back I announced the arrival of the vROps Webinar 2016 Series and I am glad to share that we have successfully delivered the first session of this year long series on Friday, 22nd Jan. A special thanks to Simon Eady, who delivered a power packed session on Building Self-Healing environments usingContinue reading “vROps Webinar 2016 : Part 1 : Building Self-Healing Environments with vROps”

Announcement : Welcome 2016 with a vROps Webinar Series

Let me begin with wishing you and your loved ones a Happy and a Prosperous 2016. The year 2015 has been great fun around the blogging arena, however a constant feedback which I have received from my readers has been around learning more about vRealize Operations Manager. While readers enjoy the benefit of replicating theContinue reading “Announcement : Welcome 2016 with a vROps Webinar Series”

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”

Importing / Exporting Reports and Views in vRealize Operations Manager

This one would be quick note to tell you about the feature of Exporting and Importing Reports in vRealize Operations. In one of my previous articles, I wrote about creating a report out of a dashboard. Here is the link to that article.  We all know that with Custom Reports, you can also pull inContinue reading “Importing / Exporting Reports and Views in vRealize Operations Manager”

Using Custom Reports To Publish Dashboards in vRealize Operations 6.1

As I am exploring vRealize Operations 6.1, I am unearthing the goodness of the new features which are introduced with this release. One of the biggest feature for me which the product delivers now is the new enhanced reporting feature. This reporting feature allows you to import a Custom Dashboard into a report. Yes youContinue reading “Using Custom Reports To Publish Dashboards in vRealize Operations 6.1”

Virtual Machine Capacity Profiles in vRealize Operations 6.1

Let me start this article with this statement, “vRealize Operations Manager 6.1 is probably the best UI for an enterprise Performance, Capacity or Monitoring tool I have ever seen”. I must congratulate the VMware R&D folks and the Product Management to transform vCenter Operations to vRealize Operations in a beautiful way. Yes I work for VMwareContinue reading “Virtual Machine Capacity Profiles in vRealize Operations 6.1”

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?”

SAP on VMware Series : It’s all about the Design!

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!”