This article will walk you through getting the latest version of the "Management Pack for vROPs" installed and working, and get you on your journey to expanding out the functionality within vRealize Operations. What Is It? The management pack is a software update for vROPs that does several things including: Allowing visibility into vRO so … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Management Pack for vRealize Orchestrator
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Log Insight – Bi-Directional Event Forwarding
This scenario has come up a couple of times with customers I have been working with and it is centered around the following situation/question . I have deployed 2 Log Insight platforms, one for each of my datacenters (assume one vCenter per DC). How do I get all the events in both Log Insight clusters … Continue reading Log Insight – Bi-Directional Event Forwarding
vRealize Operations – Views
Views provide you the ability to define a set of metrics or properties that you might commonly and repeatedly use together for a specific object type. The information displayed in a view can either be a: List – data about an object (or objects) displayed in a table with one object per line Summary – … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Views
Log Insight – Authentication Case Sensitivity
This is an interesting problem I encountered last week with an environment configured with native AD authentication within Log Insight. The version was 4.6.1 but the same behaviour can be found in version 4.7. Adding domain users to Log Insight directly via the native authentication enabled the domain user to log into Log Insight without … Continue reading Log Insight – Authentication Case Sensitivity
Log Insight – Upgrading to 4.7
Upgrading to Log Insight 4.7 is a relatively straight forward process and is done by the application of a new pak file, downloadable from downloads.vmware.com or by leveraging vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (version 2.0 if going this route). In this blog I will be going from version 4.6.1 to 4.7. Before attempting any upgrade, the … Continue reading Log Insight – Upgrading to 4.7
Log Insight – Replacing SSL Certificates
The following process has been illustrated using Log Insight version 4.6.1 however it is also the same for version 4.7. Log Insight comes configured out of the box with a self-signed certificate that is generated during the installation. For some customers this is fine however there normally comes a point when either the certificate expires … Continue reading Log Insight – Replacing SSL Certificates
vRealize Operations – Super Metrics
Super Metrics are often regarded in the same way as Dynamic Types are in vRO (i.e. too difficult to use). However if you are familiar with vROPs metrics and you can use excel then creating a Super Metric should be easy! The first question is why to use them? Lets take an example scenario. The … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Super Metrics
vRealize Operations – Security Compliance
For this blog post I am using a Pre-GA version of vROPs 7.0 with the vSphere Security Configuration Guide standards however the key concepts are the same for 6.x and 7.x. Security Compliance has been around in vROPs for some time however it is often overlooked. Sometimes I think customers would rather live with their … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Security Compliance
vRealize Operations 7.0 – Quick Overview
This is a quick post giving you an overview of vROPs 7.0. It's not intended to be in an in-depth post so if you need that then wait until 7.0 goes to GA and then check back here. All screenshots in this article have been taken from a Pre GA version and any changes I … Continue reading vRealize Operations 7.0 – Quick Overview
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
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