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”

Part 5 – Performance Troubleshooting Dashboards in vRealize Operations 6.6.

Hope you are enjoying the What’s New with vROps 6.6 Series. I am having a great time writing this, since my experience as a user of vROps has completely turned around with this release. In this post, we will continue talking about the rich & use case driven out of the box content available inContinue reading “Part 5 – Performance Troubleshooting Dashboards in vRealize Operations 6.6.”

Part 3 – Operations Dashboards in vRealize Operations 6.6.

In my last post I gave you an overview of the new user interface of vRealize Operations 6.6 along with some other important enhancements. Do go through that post to get a context of what we are going to discuss here.With the introduction of Getting Started page within dashboards, one of the categories which is availableContinue reading “Part 3 – Operations Dashboards in vRealize Operations 6.6.”

Enabling SDDC Health Solution for VSAN monitoring.

A few days back, I wrote about the release of VMware SDDC health Solution 2.0 which enabled you to monitor all the key components of your Software Defined Datacenter. If you go though the documentation of this release, you will see that the pre-requisite to monitor VSAN through this management pack requires you to install andContinue reading “Enabling SDDC Health Solution for VSAN monitoring.”

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!”

Use vRealize Operations to Monitor the Health of VSAN.

During a recent discussion about VMworld with Rawlinson Rivera a.k.a the VSAN Guru, we discussed about how vRealize Operations can be leveraged to monitor the performance and capacity of a VSAN Cluster. We discussed the VSAN Management Pack which was announced in beta earlier this year by VMware and during the discussion we came up with aContinue reading “Use vRealize Operations to Monitor the Health of VSAN.”

Part 3 – Architecting Storage for vSphere Environments – A Scoop from my vForum Prezo!

In continuation to the series on “Architecting vSphere Environments“, this post talks about Architecting the storage for a vSphere Infrastructure. For those who have not read the previous parts of this series, I would highly recommend you go through them in order to get a complete picture on the  considerations which matter the most while designingContinue reading “Part 3 – Architecting Storage for vSphere Environments – A Scoop from my vForum Prezo!”