OnePlus One Review : Things I like the most!!

With the buzz in the air around the “Flagship Killer” phone I was pretty interested in following the developments around the OnePlus One. The phone was recently launched in India and sold through Amazon India. Just a couple of days back, I received an invite from my colleague and within minutes, I ordered the phone.Continue reading “OnePlus One Review : Things I like the most!!”

Part 9: Exporting & Importing Policies with vRealize Operations Manager 6.0

With the release of vRealize Operations Manager 6.0, VMware has introduced a much required feature into the product which allows you export policies created in your vROps 6.0 instance and import them back into the system as and when you need them. This feature was in constant demand with vCOps 5.x, however was never possibleContinue reading “Part 9: Exporting & Importing Policies with vRealize Operations Manager 6.0”

Part 8 : Exploring Policies in vRealize Operations Manager 6.0.

Let me start by sending a lot of best wishes your way this new year. 2014 was rocking and I thank my family, friends, colleagues and readers for making it a special year for me. As I step into this new year, I look forward to more exciting times in my personal and professional life.Continue reading “Part 8 : Exploring Policies in vRealize Operations Manager 6.0.”

Part 7 : Recommendation Intelligence in vRealize Operations Manager 6.0!

One of the unique feature of VMware’s Operations Management solution has been the analytics engine which has the ability to learn the behaviour of every metric and create a dynamic threshold which reflects the usage patterns. These usage patterns are the key to register anomalies or abnormal behaviour of a metric which helps in proactiveContinue reading “Part 7 : Recommendation Intelligence in vRealize Operations Manager 6.0!”

Part 6: vRealize Operations 6.0 – Am I missing the Badge Scores?

With the release of vRealize Operations Manager 6.0, a number of new things have been introduced. While I continue to add content around what’s new in my series on this new release, I always wanted to share some major changes int he way data is displayed and should be interpreted with the new release. IfContinue reading “Part 6: vRealize Operations 6.0 – Am I missing the Badge Scores?”

Part 5 – What migrates from vCOps 5.x to vROps 6.0?

I have received questions from a number of people around migration of data from vCenter Operations Manager 5.x to the latest and the greatest vRealize Operations Manager 6.0. I will not re-invent the wheel by writing about the migration process since my buddy Lior Kamrat has already explained the process in this article. A quickContinue reading “Part 5 – What migrates from vCOps 5.x to vROps 6.0?”

vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 Released. Go get it!

I am glad to share that vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 is out today. I have been writing a series about this release of the operations management suite in a series here. The release will now allow me to take you deep into the great new features and the recommended best practices to design, deploy andContinue reading “vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 Released. Go get it!”

Configuring Policies in vCenter / vRealize Operations Manager!

A few days back, I had this opportunity to discuss vCOps policies with my colleagues during an internal enablement event at VMware. I thought that it would be useful to others if they can have a look at the deck I presented and can get cues from it as to how one should configure policiesContinue reading “Configuring Policies in vCenter / vRealize Operations Manager!”

Creating a vROps Capacity Dashboard for your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure!

As a part of the GUEST BLOGGERS initiative on vXpress, here is the second post by Anand Vaneswaran. In this article he is giving us a dope on using vRealize Custom Dashboards to showcase the Capacity of Virtual Desktops managed by Horizon View and running on the vSphere platform. With this post, he has used the concept of capacity managementContinue reading “Creating a vROps Capacity Dashboard for your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure!”

vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 Tutorial!

With the announcement of vRealize Operations Manager 6.0, here is the page which I am dedicating to all I will write about the 6.0. This is similar to the back to basics series I wrote on vROps 6.0. I will keep updating the page as I publish more content on the new release!! Stay Tuned…Continue reading “vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 Tutorial!”