Overview During the course of content development within vRealize Operations you will come across occasions where you need to know/show how often and how many certain types of behaviors occur within a given time period. Although we can track when a behavior occurs through the use of symptoms and alert definitions as well as adding … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Showing Data Frequency and Quantity as Metrics
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vRealize Operations – Application Monitoring
Overview In my previous article I looked at the "Service Discovery" functionality within vRealize Operations 8.0. In this article I am going to build on that by showing you what the "Application Monitoring" functionality can offer which is provided by the "VMware vRealize Application Management Pack". Note that I am not going to cover the … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Application Monitoring
vRealize Operations – Service Discovery
Overview Service Discovery (as a management pack) has been around for a while (since version 6.6 of vRealize Operations) but I find it is one of those packs/features that just gets overlooked. With 8.0 reaching GA I feel it's time to go back and re-discover it (forgive the pun) and show you what it can … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Service Discovery
vRealize Operations – Upgrading to 8.0
Overview This article provides a very brief overview on upgrading existing vROps platforms to version 8.0 which is about to GA (at the time of writing). I'm not going into too much detail as there isn't a huge amount different to any other version upgrade. Upgrade Platform My environment that I am upgrading here is … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Upgrading to 8.0
vRealize Operations – Deployment Architecture Changes in 8.0
Overview vRealize Operations 8.0 is about to go to GA (at the time of writing) and there are some changes with regards to the overall deployment architecture that can be used so now is a good time to start looking at how you may want to deploy this new version within your environment. Let's dive … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Deployment Architecture Changes in 8.0
Log Insight – Configuring Webhooks Re-Visited
Overview In a previous article I covered implementing VMware Webhook Shims functionality using the source on https://github.com/vmw-loginsight/webhook-shims. As I previously stated, this is not officially maintained so it's a "use at your own risk" scenario. I was recently contacted by a customer asking how they would go about leveraging a single webhook shims server with … Continue reading Log Insight – Configuring Webhooks Re-Visited
Log Insight – Configuring Webhooks
A few years ago an internal side project within VMware generated a mechanism to trigger calls to other VMware and 3rd party products from vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Operations that were not natively supported within either product. This was known as Webhook Shims and still exists to this day on Github (https://github.com/vmw-loginsight/webhook-shims). Recently one … Continue reading Log Insight – Configuring Webhooks
vRealize Operations – Using Instanced Metrics
The last couple of work days have been taken up by doing some knowledge transfer to one of my customers, specifically for the topic of custom dashboard creation. One of the subjects of discussion that has come up several times is around instanced metrics so today I thought I would put together something to help … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Using Instanced Metrics
vRealize Operations – Allocation Super Metric
This is a quick article that came from a customer requirement to demonstrate Super Metric creation. The scenario the customer came up with was to show how many vCPUs were left within a given compute resource based on a defined allocation ratio (we'll use 4 here). Yes this was a method of showing that allocation … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Allocation Super Metric
vRealize Operations – vSAN Super Metrics Customer Scenario
This week I had an interesting use case for "Super Metrics" for a customer who needed alerting for vSAN for a specific scenario. The customer was running vSAN stretched clusters with vSAN fault domains and needed to know when a certain percentage of hosts within a fault domain had failed so that they could potentially … Continue reading vRealize Operations – vSAN Super Metrics Customer Scenario
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