I have seen a number of asks for dashboards that can help with monitoring specific use cases related to VMware Cloud on AWS. With this post, I will share four such dashboards that I have been working on pertaining to VMC monitoring use cases. Special thanks to William Lam for guiding me with the bestContinue reading “vRealize Operations dashboards to monitor VMware Cloud on AWS”
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Leveraging "Cloud Type" to configure VMware Cloud vCenter in vRealize Operations
With this post, I wanted to share a quick tip which one should follow while adding a vCenter Server running in VMware Cloud on AWS. With vRealize Operations, you can simply point to a VMC based vCenter and gather both vCenter and vSAN metrics from a VMC vCenter. While adding the endpoint is an extremelyContinue reading “Leveraging "Cloud Type" to configure VMware Cloud vCenter in vRealize Operations”
Copy and paste widgets from your favorite dashboards in vRealize Operations
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”
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”
Reset out of box content post upgrade or install of vRealize Operations
I have been several times about this and hence I thought I would quickly blog about this. With vRealize Operations, the out of the box content owned by VMware usually gets a refresh with each release. If you wish to get the new updated content, then you can leverage the reset out of box optionContinue reading “Reset out of box content post upgrade or install of vRealize Operations”
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”
Ability to transfer the ownership of dashboards with vRealize Operations 7.0
There have been several amazing changes in the realm of dashboard management in vRealize Operations 7.0. The very first one in my list of favorites is the ability to transfer dashboard ownership. In the previous releases of vRealize Operations, one can create and share dashboards, however if a user must be removed from vRealize OperationsContinue reading “Ability to transfer the ownership of dashboards with vRealize Operations 7.0”
Using "Shrink Cluster" feature of vRealize Operations 6.7
vRealize Operations 6.7 comes with a new functionality which allows you to reduce the number of nodes in your vRealize Operations cluster. This feature of vRealize Operations is to meet the following use cases: 1. Scale up your vRealize Operations nodes to extra-large nodes – If you wish to scale down the number of nodesContinue reading “Using "Shrink Cluster" feature of vRealize Operations 6.7”
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