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
Super 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
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