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
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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
vRealize Operations – Authentication
Out of the box, vROPs 6.7 comes with a set of local admin accounts designed to be used for initial product setup and cluster management/maintenance. These accounts should not be used on a daily basis (it's just bad practice and has no audit trail), therefore one of the first things that should be done POST … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Authentication
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