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”
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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”
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”
Part 2 – vRealize Operations Federation Management Pack Dashboard Overview
In my previous post, we discussed the design, architecture, installation and configuration of the federation MP. In the second part, I will share the dashboards available with this management pack. These dashboards are targeted towards the Operations, Capacity and Compliance personas. To get more details about this management pack click here. Share and Spread the Knowledge!
Part 1 – Install and Configure vRealize Operations Federation Management Pack
VMware recently released the vRealize Operations Federation Management Pack. Since I see a number of folks asking about the new management pack, I thought it would be useful to have a video sries which can help you understand the use cases behind the vROps Federation Management Pack. This short video series will cover a numberContinue reading “Part 1 – Install and Configure vRealize Operations Federation Management Pack”
Announcing General Availability of vROPS Federation Management Pack 1.0
We just announced the the Federation Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager. What is the Federation Management Pack: The vRealize Operations Federation Management Pack helps you to unify your multi-site vRealize operations deployment into a single pane of glass. This solution allows you to instantiate a deployment of vRealize Operations Manager with the capability ofContinue reading “Announcing General Availability of vROPS Federation Management Pack 1.0”
vROps Webinar 2017 – Part 4 – Optimizing Workload Performance Using Automation
While we all know that, automating day to day operations tasks is becoming the choice of an IT organization, it is hard for them to find a solution which can completely understand their business policies and provide them the efficiency they need from automating simple operational tasks. Based on our research, we found that, oneContinue reading “vROps Webinar 2017 – Part 4 – Optimizing Workload Performance Using Automation”
Announcing General Availability of VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 1.0
VMware just announced the aviability of VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager automates Day 0 to Day 2 operations of the entire vRealize Suite, enabling simplified operational experience for customers. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager automates lifecycle management with a single pane of glass, thereby freeing customer resources to focus on business-criticalContinue reading “Announcing General Availability of VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 1.0”
vROps Webinar 2017 – Announcing Part 4 : Optimizing Workload Performance Using Automation
Back from VMworld 2017. Clearly, this has to be the BEST EVER VMworld for VMware and its customers. I am still hungover from all the announcements and amazing solutions we have to offer to our customers. Well, in all this excitement, I wanted to make sure that we are able to keep our promise ofContinue reading “vROps Webinar 2017 – Announcing Part 4 : Optimizing Workload Performance Using Automation”
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