Now that VMworld 2018 has passed (at least for the US) screenshots of vRA 7.5 are out in the wild so I can take a few minutes here to cover some of the changes/additions since vRA 7.4. The UI VMware products are being aligned to the Clarity UI design to give a consistent look and … Continue reading vRealize Automation 7.5 – Quick Overview
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vRealize Operations Upgrade to 6.7
This post will guide you through the process of upgrading to the latest (at the time of writing) version of vRealize Operations (vROPs). In our example upgrade scenario we will be starting with version 6.6.0 which has been configured for vCenter connectivity to a vSphere 6.5 platform. The installation consists of 2 x small nodes … Continue reading vRealize Operations Upgrade to 6.7
Dynamic Types
Dynamic Types have always seemed to be a mystery to alot of people who use vRealize Orchestrator (vRO). Sometimes people don't understand why you might need them and other times they just seem way to complex to figure out how they work and how to implement them. What and Why Dynamic Types enables you to … Continue reading Dynamic Types
vRO with PowerShell & CredSSP
In this post I will show you how to integrate a PowerShell host into vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) leveraging CredSSP. Throughout my time at VMware I have worked on many automation projects and most (if not all) of them have had a requirement to re-use PowerShell scripts that already exist. Customers just don't lik re-working stuff … Continue reading vRO with PowerShell & CredSSP
Scaling Log Insight
vRLI can be deployed in a variety of configurations but in its most basic form it is just a single virtual appliance. This limits the number of supported agent connections, events per second, event storage capacity and overall system performance. In fact all deployment types have limitations, those limitations just have higher values as more … Continue reading Scaling Log Insight
Log Insight – Analysis for Additional Products
vRLI 4.6 comes pre-installed with the capability to analyse core VMware products/components including vSphere, VSAN and vROPs. Customers will require the ability to examine logs from other products that may or may not be VMware related and expect the same integrated experience when using filters, graphs and searching data. To facilitate this, product content packs … Continue reading Log Insight – Analysis for Additional Products
Log Insight Alerting (with vROPs)
One of the nice things you can do with vRLI and vROPs is to pass information and events between the two, using data in one to trigger an action in the other. For example, lets assume that we have detected an undesirable situation with one of our ESXi hosts that shows up as specific log … Continue reading Log Insight Alerting (with vROPs)
Log Insight – Event Filtering
Now that your vRLI install is up and running and you are receiving logging data, it's time to start looking at the data and seeing how it can be used, filtered and searched. vRLI has 2 methods of looking at data. The first is by leveraging dashboards, either with pre-created content pack dashboards or by … Continue reading Log Insight – Event Filtering
Integrating Log Insight with vROPs
Before we get started with this post it's important to highlight the product versions being used here. Namely, version 6.7 of vRealize Operations and version 4.6.1 of vRealize Log Insight. VMworld 2018 is currently underway and new product versions will shortly released towards the end of 2018. This may or may not change the procedures … Continue reading Integrating Log Insight with vROPs
vRealize Operations 6.7 – Custom Dashboards
Dashboards provide a way to consume metrics and properties within vROPs and show them to the user in an easy to consume way. The dashboard may be for one object or for many and it may require user interaction to drive it or not. vROPs comes with a variety of OOTB dashboards designed to give … Continue reading vRealize Operations 6.7 – Custom Dashboards
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