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”

The Secret Sauce to be a VMware Ninja!

This is a quick post to share the resources from where I learn about vRealize Operations Manager. In the past few months, I have received a number of questions around Capacity Management, Alerts, Projects etc. I must say that VMware Technical Marketing has done a great job to document all this in a form ofContinue reading “The Secret Sauce to be a VMware Ninja!”

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 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!”

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”

Configuring vRealize Suite 6.0 for Backup and Restore by Using Symantec NetBackup 7.6

Just wanted to quickly post about a great whitepaper which was recently released by VMware. The whitepaper is titled “Configuring vRealize Suite 6.0 for Backup and Restore by Using Symantec NetBackup 7.6” and as the same suggests it s a prescriptive guide which can be used to backup all the components of vCloud Suite 6.0.Continue reading “Configuring vRealize Suite 6.0 for Backup and Restore by Using Symantec NetBackup 7.6”

Guest Post : vRealize Operations Manager Metric Guide!

************Updated with vROps 6.6. Statkeys on 8th January 2018************** I would like to thank my great friend Sunny Dua for giving me the opportunity to be his guest blogger. I came across many requests both internally (field consultants / SE) and externally (Clients) for an extensive list of available metrics of vRealize Operations Manager inContinue reading “Guest Post : vRealize Operations Manager Metric Guide!”

vRealize Production Test v1.2 is Generally Available

VMware just announced the vRealize Production Test version 1.2 today. Now that I have started working on vRealize Automation for my recent cloud automation projects, I really think that vRealize Production Test is a great tool which helps monitor a vRealize Suite Deployment to ensure it is working as designed and implemented.  This is a greatContinue reading “vRealize Production Test v1.2 is Generally Available”