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
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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
vRealize Operations – Policies
Policies in vROPs enables analysis, automation, metric and alert settings to be applied to a set of objects. These objects reside within custom groups (for more info on creating custom groups see https://vnuggets.com/2018/08/23/vrealize-operations-6-7-custom-groups). vROPs comes with a set of OOTB policies which can be edited, copied or used to create other policies from. Policy Inheritance … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Policies
vRealize Operations – Symptoms & Alerts
One of the core functions within a monitoring and optimisation solution is to detect when something is not normal and to then do something about it. In this example we have requirement for a specific host cluster to alert based on lower thresholds for CPU Workload %. Symptom Definitions A Symptom Definition allows the administrator … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Symptoms & Alerts
vRealize Operations – Custom Groups
In this article I will show you how to create a custom group in order to use multiple policies within a vROPs environment. Remember, if we want a policy other than the default policy to be applied to one or more objects then we must group those objects together and apply the policy to the … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Custom Groups
vRealize Operations – vSphere Adapter
The vSphere Solutions Adapter enables vROPs to collect metrics for vSphere endpoints (individual vCenter servers and their contents). This is pretty much the default starting point when configuring a installation to collect data. To configure the solution adapter go to "Administration" and select the adapter. The gear icon can then be used to enter the … Continue reading vRealize Operations – vSphere Adapter
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