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”
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Key vSAN metrics and properties available in vRealize Operations
vSAN day 2 operations are increasingly becoming mainstream in vRealize Operations. With the last release of vRealize Operations 7.5, while vROps added some cool capabilities around workload balancing using workload optimization across multiple vSAN clusters, there were some key metrics which were added to help vSAN administrators. Some of the key metrics that are availableContinue reading “Key vSAN metrics and properties available in vRealize Operations”
Operate VMware Cloud on AWS using vRealize Operations
VMware Cloud on AWS is one of the most talked about innovations and partnerships between VMware and AWS Cloud. With VMware’s SDDC stack fully deployed on AWS, we are delivering on the promise to VMware customers to get the economies of the public cloud without re-writing your existing applications. While talking to most of the customers who are leveragingContinue reading “Operate VMware Cloud on AWS using vRealize Operations”
How to recover vRealize Operations admin account password
With vRealize Operations 7.0, VMware introduced a very simple yet powerful feature which would allow you to reset the built-in admin password of your vRealize Operations instance using recovery settings. I believe this is an extremely useful feature, as I have seen numerous deployments where admins have forgotten the admin password and are forced toContinue reading “How to recover vRealize Operations admin account password”
Automatically place ESXi hosts in maintenance in vROps using properties
This has come up in a number of discussions with customers and a few VMware field employees and hence I wanted to blog about this and use this as a standard answer going foward 🙂 Use Case – An administrator wants to disable alerts on a ESXi host which has been put into maintenance modeContinue reading “Automatically place ESXi hosts in maintenance in vROps using properties”
Using the compare to previous period option while troubleshooting with vRealize Operations
One of the less known feature of vRealize Operations is to visualize data patterns and compare them against previous time periods of same interval. This feature helps you to easily detect changes in behavior of a workload a.k.a anomalies which could be a result of an event leading to an underlying performance problem. Let’s explainContinue reading “Using the compare to previous period option while troubleshooting with vRealize Operations”
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 2 – Introduction to vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 User Interface.
In my previous post I gave you a high level overview of What’s New with vRealize Operations 6.6. In continuation to that post, I will deep dive into each of the areas which are worth noticing in this release and will help you learn more about how you can use vROps to make day toContinue reading “Part 2 – Introduction to vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 User Interface.”
Using a Help Desk Dashboard to Simplify Operations With vRealize Operations Manager!
This post is a resultant of our VMworld 2015 content which we ( me and Iwan Rahabok) have been brewing since the mid of this year. Without taking any credit, I must say that all the content which we presented in various events such as architect bootcamps, VMworld and recently at the VMware APJ TechContinue reading “Using a Help Desk Dashboard to Simplify Operations With vRealize Operations Manager!”
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